<story><title>DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/defi-protocol-compound-mistakenly-gives-away-millions-to-users.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>It’s not, but “give us our money back or we’ll report you to the IRS” strongly implies that they were willfully assisting in tax avoidance before. It might even legally be blackmail, if they’re aware of any crimes their customers have committed.</text></item><item><author>bostonsre</author><text>Paying taxes on free money isn&amp;#x27;t the end of the world.</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Headline is misleading: the founder has threatened to doxx and report them to the IRS if they don&amp;#x27;t return funds which according to the Compound protocol, they rightfully own anyway.&lt;p&gt;Notch it up to another first for crypto.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fossuser</author><text>Yeah I got a kick out of that too.&lt;p&gt;“Send the money back or we’ll follow the laws we were supposed to be following anyway!”&lt;p&gt;Patio11 had a thread on Twitter better than this article.</text></comment>
<story><title>DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/defi-protocol-compound-mistakenly-gives-away-millions-to-users.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ashtonkem</author><text>It’s not, but “give us our money back or we’ll report you to the IRS” strongly implies that they were willfully assisting in tax avoidance before. It might even legally be blackmail, if they’re aware of any crimes their customers have committed.</text></item><item><author>bostonsre</author><text>Paying taxes on free money isn&amp;#x27;t the end of the world.</text></item><item><author>qeternity</author><text>Headline is misleading: the founder has threatened to doxx and report them to the IRS if they don&amp;#x27;t return funds which according to the Compound protocol, they rightfully own anyway.&lt;p&gt;Notch it up to another first for crypto.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yial</author><text>I think that trying to obtain goods or services through threat of initiating criminal proceedings is usually illegal.&lt;p&gt;Wash. Rev. Code §§ 9A.56.110, 9A.56.130, 9A.04.110&lt;p&gt;For example</text></comment>