An interesting quirk in Ethereum is that a contract address is determined by deployer address + nonce. So, you can send ETH to a contract that does not exist, then later deploy a contract there and recover it.

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tripplyons 8 days ago | parent [-]

It is also the same address on many forks of Ethereum, which has led to some strange circumstances when Optimism sent tens of millions of dollars to a smart contract address on the wrong blockchain, and a hacker was able to create a smart contract they controlled using the same address on the blockchain it was accidentally sent to and steal the funds.

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trhway 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

Bug or feature. Could it have been a transfer of funds organized to look like a hack?

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hiatus 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you have a link to read more about this?

	▲	maxbond 8 days ago \| parent [-]
		https://gov.optimism.io/t/message-to-optimism-community-from... I've never seen a corporate announcement whipsaw from technical incident report to tentative job offer to a threat paraphrasing the IRA before but I guess that's because I don't spend time in the cryptoasset community.