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Crypto Stories You Rarely Hear #4
In 2014, a programmer tried to build a simple Ethereum-based game and accidentally created a smart contract that anyone could interact with freely. Years later, security researchers realized the contract still held valuable tokens, but no one could upgrade or shut it down. The code kept running exactly as written, silently executing on-chain for years—an early reminder that in Web3, deployed code can outlive its creator and become untouchable