The silver lining in the wLEO Uniswap hack... and vote LeoFinance for Witness!

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It's never a good thing when someone hacks you and you lose money, but there are some silver linings...

On the surface, having the wLEO pool on Uniswap hacked is a bad thing.

The hacker was able to create wLEO out of thin air, swap that wLEO for Ether and then send that Ether to non-KYCd wallet addresses on Binance.

The ends result was roughly $120k (at least) worth of value was stolen from wLEO liquidity providers.

However, there is a bit more to this story, most of which hasn't been written just yet.

In something that has never really happened before LEO or LeoFiance,io or wLEO.

It's getting some national news coverage.

Check it out:

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(Source: https://twitter.com/decryptmedia/status/1315723672129277953)

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(Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=wleo+uniswap&oq=wleo+uniswap&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l2j69i61.5924j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

The actual write up in Decrypto can be seen here:

https://decrypt.co/44645/ethereum-project-wleo-hacked-for-42000-on-uniswap

The actual content of those news stories is less important than the eyeballs they attract.

What this means for LEO going forward...

Plain and simple, this could end up resulting in more users for LeoFinance.

It may sound counter-intuitive and a bit silly, but it is entirely possible that this brings more people to LeoFinance than would had been here had this not happened.

And if there are more users or more people viewing LeoFinance, it means more ad revenue for the platform and more ad revenue means a higher token price, eventually.

The ad revenue is funneled back into LEO via a buy and burn method that removes supply and puts a bit in the markets.

The other potentially good news is that if the LEO team can learn how exactly this hack happened, they can eventually re-launch something with immensely more security than they had previously and potentially more securely than other projects launching on Uniswap.

Basically it could be one of those things where the hack was the cost of education.

This becomes more of a get if the wLEO liquidity providers are eventually made whole as the most likely only eventual loss is a slight increase in supply.

Though perhaps we could create a proposal to compensate wLEO liquidity providers for whatever the LEO team cannot cover.

I mean with all the other crap that has gotten funded since inception, this one actually seems like a decent use case, a sort of built in insurance pool.

Something outside investors would look at as some added security to their investment.

That or perhaps we can at least get LeoFinance funded like a top witness, which would only help...

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(Source: https://wallet.hive.blog/~witnesses)

Go throw em a vote if you haven't already.

Anyways, the bottom line is that yes this news was bad but it doesn't have to be a project killer and in a round about way, it may have some positives emerge from it as well.

Hopefully you were able to snatch up some sub $.10 LEO on Hive-Engine yesterday, it may be the lowest we see for a while.

Stay informed my friends.

-Doc

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It can be a promotion tool of leo team can manage the bad news, by recoding the pool, make more secure, leo has been a global attraction to the case

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What happened is a really bad thing.

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Sure, but it's not the end of the world and a year from now it may it end up being for the better... we will see.

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'There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.' Oscar Wilde. The team of leofinance is strong and they will get through this. Sorry to all who lost funds but I'm also sorry that I didn't get a chance to pick up some more Leo going cheap. I like the idea of getting the Hive to rally behind then as it really shows the true power of our blockchain which is the community. Shame on me for not voting for their witness before but it is now set.

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That's a good one, I hadn't hear that before.

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Ok... finally logged into LEOFinance.io .... I had to turn my iPad sideways to find the Log in button.... oh well. Better late than never eh.

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