A bot accidentally became a billionaire overnight and it’s owner had no idea In 2019, a pricing oracle on Synthetix started reporting the Korean Won 1000x too high No human caught it Only a bot did It cycled the error three times Each cycle multiplied profits by 1000x $1 billion on Ethereum. In under an hour. The bot was fully automated and the owner didn’t place a single trade When the news broke, he reached out on Reddit His only ask was to keep the $30k his bot legitimately made before the glitch And he handed back the rest The part nobody talks about is that he couldn’t have spent the billion anyway The gains had no collateral backing them so there was nothing to cash out $1 billion that was simultaneously real, provable, but also worthless