• golli@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    What I don’t quite understand is how there is 1.5 billion in a single wallet. Or how are these things structured?

    This article puts their total assets under management at $15.7b, which are held in different cryptocurrencies with ethereum at just above $5b.

    So I am wondering how they have more than 1/6 of their Ethereum in a single wallet or were these multiple that were connected and got compromised through the same vulnerability? How expensive is it to have more individual wallets? Would it not be feasible to have it split in something like $100m chunks? Or any other more moderate size.

    • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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      5 hours ago

      Making more wallets would cost nothing more than a few hundred bytes of storage each for the keys. I have no idea why they wouldn’t have split their funds into evenly sized wallets of, say, $1M each.