HBIT glitch reveals Hive people being awesome

A few days ago, I was tweaking the @Hivebits (HBIT) bot. I had it in a rather glitchy state. At one point, it got thrown into a loop. I noticed it in the Discord log, as seen in the image below. That's happened before for various reasons, so I wasn't too concerned. I was at work and wasn't really able to deal with it at the moment.

I wasn't too concerned until...@savvytester brought this to my attention:

See comment: https://peakd.com/@savvyplayer/re-crrdlx-202558t221553863z

Every time the loop processed, it actually sent an HBIT from @hivebits (the source account) to user @astramar. Whoa! That's a huge glitch!

From it's start, the two main premises of HBIT have been: (1) 21 million capped supply which is unchangeable, (2) an HBIT is only released "into the wild" by someone actually doing something to earn it, and (3) one per day per person. @astramar did nothing wrong here, he or she just mined a daily HBIT, but the bot went into a loop and sent a ton until I shut it down.

savvytester did some math and calculated 118.8 HBIT had been transferred.

Comment: https://peakd.com/hive-155986/@savvytester/re-astramar-2025510t82713673z

118.8 is exactly 117.8 more than should have been transferred. I was fully prepared to chalk up the extra Hivebits that were released as a growing pain. Things happen. In a way, anyone who mined HBIT could have benefited from the loopy glitch, it just happened to be astramar. So, that's just good fortune for astramar. But, today...

astramar sent them back, all 118.8 HBIT!

Comment: https://peakd.com/hive-155986/@astramar/re-crrdlx-2025510t124144844z

And there it is on the block explorer at https://he.dtools.dev/tx/043a191571c761f7ba97217f0c4a18eec92c3f81

That's pretty awesome that astramar just went ahead and returned those HBITs. Yes, everything is visible on chain and anyone can see what happened (one of the glories of blockchain), but it still wasn't necessary and no one could have taken them back. astramar just did it.

To say thanks, I gave 118.8 of my own, personally-mined HBIT to astramar (https://he.dtools.dev/tx/2a05de640f1cf3cb8e0c1efab0d9b180ec1a3a39).

None of this token business is a terribly big deal, I'm happy these tenets of HBIT remain intact:

• you only get an HBIT by actually mining it, or...
• you only get an HBIT by buying it from someone on an exchange (and who actually mined it themselves), or...
• you only get an HBIT as a gift from someone (and who bought it or actually mined it themselves).

Although this may not be a big deal, character is. Thank you good Hive people.

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