Quote from: iamnotback on June 19, 2016, 03:39:41 AM

Re: BREAKING NEWS: DAO Attacker Identified!!

Quote from: yefi on June 19, 2016, 03:13:08 AM

Judging by this, the maverick Mircea Popescu seems to be taking credit:

http://trilema.com/2016/to-the-dao-and-the-ethereum-community-fuck-you/

I didn't verify the Keccak hash (which is apparently why others thought the hash didn't match because they were assuming SHA256?). If it matches, then I would expect MP could be the one to pull this off. He has also told the SEC go to fuck themselves. You all may remember AnonyMint once debated MP on BCT about his cavalier attitude towards the SEC.

So this changes the complexity of Vitalik's decision process, because he appears convinced that he can win a suit in tort law. He appears to be arguing that splitting was an intended feature and they he did not violate the intent of the contract. Given that The DAO's only purpose was a power vacuum game theory of who could capture the pooled ETH, I am thinking maybe he and his lawyers are correct.

So much drama today.

Also:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/19/thinking-smart-contract-security/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oqdnc/the_ethereum_foundation_needs_to_distance_itself/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oq6yh/will_stephan_tual_apologize/

Edit: I was very sleepy when I wrote the above. I see now that MP's plan is not to sue in court, but rather to incentivize the miners not to fork:

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/exclusive-full-interview-transcript-alleged-dao-attacker/

If the exchanges try to blacklist his ETH, that kills fungibility and ETH will collapse in price.