🔥Hot off the press! The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two brothers for a cunning attack on Ethereum trading bots, raking in a cool $25 million! The duo exploited a flaw in the MEV (maximal extractable value) system, a controversial process that can be a goldmine for automated bots.

But hold your horses, this ain't a Robinhood tale! Anton and James Peraire-Bueno didn't steal from the rich to give to the poor. They set up shell companies and sought ways to launder funds undetected, in what the DOJ calls a "highly orchestrated and premeditated plot". 🕵️‍♂️

The brothers exploited an open-source built by MEV firm Flashbots that gave them an unequal view into how MEV bots were ordering transactions. They signed false transactions to run the scheme, tricking the Relay to prematurely release the content of the proposed block to them, including private transaction information.

The crypto community is buzzing! Some see the indictment as a good thing, indicating the technical savvy of the DOJ. Others argue that exploiting MEV bots is fair game. What's your take? 🤔

The silver lining? The Flashbots team patched the error that enabled the attack fairly quickly. The Ethereum community is now working to minimize MEV, but it's a tough nut to crack. For now, the process is "inevitable". Let's study it, illuminate it, minimize it, and make it as open as possible for anyone to participate with the same rules. 💪

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