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El Salvador's Chivo Wallet: a slapstick saga of software disaster: Attack of the 50-Foot Blockchain
Dec. 3, 2022, 12:01 a.m. | David Gerard
The RISKS Digest catless.ncl.ac.uk
The GDP of the United States ($20 trillion) is approximately a thousand
times El Salvador's GDP ($26 billion). So this is as if the US government
lost a quarter billion dollars to fraud due to a software error in an
internationally publicised flagship payment project, by telling a junior
developer to commit straight to production on his first day.
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/11/30/el-salvadors-chivo-wallet-disasters-a-slapstick-saga-of-software-disaster/
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