Leo leaned back in his chair, heart hammering, and gave his most innocent smile. "Did I? I thought that was the bin's job."
On the forum, the comments were already piling up. "Dead," wrote one user. "Patching is getting faster," wrote another. The digital cat-and-mouse game was weighted heavily toward the house. The companies knew these numbers as well as the hunters did, and their algorithms were designed to shut down "leaky" BINs within minutes of them going public.
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