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While there is a general consensus that the Knightscope security robot in Washington, D.C., committed suicide on Monday, the same everyone-agrees-opinion is not true for the $7.4 million heist of the cryptocurrency Ether that happened on the same day. CoinDash maintains that a hacker made off with the Ether, which comes from the app platform ethereum, during its Initial Coin Offering (ICO), yet speculation is running rampant, including a theory that the money disappeared due to a scam, not a hack.
During its Token Sale event, the startup CoinDash meant for investors to send ether to stake claims in its app, which is in development; it’s basically crowdfunding on the ethereum platform.
As Motherboard reported:
CoinDash's ICO, like many others, launched simply by posting a string of text representing an ethereum address for investors to send money to on the app's website....