{"id":193462,"date":"2021-06-23T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=193462"},"modified":"2022-07-24T23:47:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T22:47:48","slug":"second-largest-eth2-staking-pool-sues-fireblocks-after-75-million-ethereum-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/second-largest-eth2-staking-pool-sues-fireblocks-after-75-million-ethereum-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Second-largest ETH2 staking pool sues Fireblocks after $75 million Ethereum blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israeli-based firm <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/crypto-com-services-now-available-to-400-institutional-partners-with-fireblocks-integration\/\">Fireblocks<\/a>,which provides crypto custody services for businesses faces negligence accusations, allegedly deleting keys to a wallet containing 38,178 Ethereum (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/ethereum\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ETH)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lawsuit was filed by a cryptocurrency staking company StakeHound, claiming it got locked out of its wallet containing approximately $75 million worth of cryptocurrency.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stakehound, the second biggest ETH2 staking pool (after Lido) lost their users\u2019 private keys. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i53p1HVoUM\">pic.twitter.com\/i53p1HVoUM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Spediacci \u27e0?? 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She is currently based in Berlin immersed in the vibrant scenes of both Crypto and Techno.","url":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/ana-grabundzija\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193478,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193462\/revisions\/193478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193462"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=193462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}