Your donation today powers the independent journalism that you rely on. For just $5/month, you can help sustain Marketplace so we can keep reporting on the things that matter to you. McKenzie, along with his collaborator, Jacob Silverman, investigated the crypto industry writ large in their new book, Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. What they found was a sector prone to both speculation and fraud. You rely on Marketplace to break down the world’s events and tell you how it affects you in a fact-based, approachable way. We rely on your financial support to keep making that possible. Compound, a popular cryptocurrency platform, last week put out what should have been a routine update to the code that governs users' transactions. However, the update contained a bug that mistakenly sent up to $89 million worth of crypto tokens into some users' accounts.
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