Ethereum’s smart contracts are full of holes

Summary: Researchers used a tool to find vulnerable smart-contracts on the Ethereum blockchain and found 34 000. 31 000 of them categorised as "greedy" (no one can withdraw any funds from the contract, including the owner).

Link to full paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.06038.pdf

- Posted 8 minutes ago already gets 5 votes.

- The article mentions literally zero holes

- Just a description of smart contracts

I'm sorry, but why is this here?

Here's the paper mentioned in the article that talks about 34000 vulnerabilities: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.06038.pdf

Because the title contains the word ‘Ethereum’.

The title is very misleading. It's a description of smart contracts and their history, but there are no actual holes mentioned, especially not in the context suggested by the title. only the last paragraph mentions that particular contracts written by developers might contain holes that would be difficult to detect, but there are no fundamental holes in the concept or Ethereum's implementation of smart contracts. I feel like this article should be flagged.