Investigator slams XRP Ledger over 'cheap' reward for flagging supply bug

The XRP Ledger just dodged a bullet that could have printed 18 trillion XRP—184 times the total supply—yet they only paid the whistleblower a measly $250,000. This "cheap" reward for a decade-old, infinite-supply bug is exactly why people don't take Ripple seriously. When your treasury holds billions, paying pennies for a catastrophic fix only encourages hackers to exploit the system for nine figures instead of reporting it. Is $250k really enough to protect a multi-billion dollar network?
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