Favorite SF moment so far: "An ex-Goldman playtester caused a financial crisis, taking $FOO from $50 to $0.01" "What was the bug?" "NO BUG."
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We had sufficient bots programmed to be momentum traders that one guy was able to intentionally bootstrap a feedback loop.
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After the first $10 or so drop the automated marketmaker said "Eff this, I'm out" and after that it was all over but the crying.
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Flash crash was over in ~15 seconds with playtester having turned $100k of funnymoney into > $5 million.
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