{"id":607803,"date":"2026-06-01T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=819024"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:17:32","slug":"researcher-cracks-9-year-old-bug-frees-2m-in-ethereum-locked-since-2016-ico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/researcher-cracks-9-year-old-bug-frees-2m-in-ethereum-locked-since-2016-ico\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher Cracks 9-Year-Old Bug, Frees $2M in Ethereum Locked Since 2016 ICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/researcher-cracks-9-year-old-bug-frees-2m-in-ethereum-locked-since-2016-ico-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Padlock barricading a door from being opened.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A security researcher known as 0xflorent recovered roughly 1,003.62 ETH, worth approximately $2 million, that had been trapped inside a failed 2016 Ethereum ICO smart contract for nearly nine years. A 2016 ICO That Never Paid Back The funds originated from Hongcoin, also referred to as \u201cThe HONG,\u201d a 2016 Ethereum-based project pitched as a [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security researcher known as 0xflorent recovered roughly 1,003.62 ETH, worth approximately $2 million, that had been trapped inside a failed 2016 Ethereum ICO smart contract for nearly nine years. A 2016 ICO That Never Paid Back The funds originated from Hongcoin, also referred to as \u201cThe HONG,\u201d a 2016 Ethereum-based project pitched as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-607803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}