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They should have written a check that runs periodically to check that the sum of all wallets equals their total BTC according to their ledgers. You have to write that process anyway, it shouldn't matter too much if it has to examine 100 wallets or 10,000 wallets.

I wouldn't want to be the guy tracing and debugging that process. Not saying it can't be done, but the extra complexity might do more harm than good

I am pretty sure the extra complexity would still outweigh the benefit of losing 500k bc at one time.

its easy to say that in hindsight :D

I imagine it was automated (with PHP!). I also imagine that it was a large part of the reason we're all in this thread.

I should invest in baskets.