I think the "hacker" or the DAO holders are trying their best to persuade the miners to work in their favour.
Indeed . The Daoattacker is playing with ethereum devs and staying one step ahead-
http://pastebin.com/9MRVDC9h
That could be a scam. You send bitcoin, DAO or Etheruem to them, but they might not send the in contracts.
Has anybody in the forum tried to contact the hacker and get 20x profit? It seems too good to be true. Why did not the hacker keep the 20x profit to themselves.
The game theory point is to share 70% of the spoils with other mutineers in order to ensure a fork (which voids the contract) is impossible to achieve.
Since the up to 15% of the money supply drained from the DAO is not sufficient to pay for mining hashrate forever, it is best to have others who have a vested interest in mining on the non-forked chain.
It also appears to be a test of whether anyone in crypto-currency really gives a shit about decentralization. Because if Ethereum forks, then it means it has been 51% attacked with arbitrary politics. Thus crypto-currency as a defense against the evils of Corporatism and the State is dead (if Ethereum's fork becomes the precedent for what people want).
Smooth and I discussed this in more detail, which I linked to upthread.
If Ethereum is able to fork and prosper after the fork, it is an sad outcome for those of us who wanted to change the world for the better.
The "attacker" wrote:
@cryptodevil Vitalik Buterin is a an empty shithead. This literally means that where human beings normally carry gray matter, he instead used to carry brown matter, but it was taken out. So now his strangely shaped skull is just a foul smelling empty receptacle.
He's not the only one in this situation...
...Groups of scammers use these idiots, exactly like you would use a table...
...In the case of Ripple, the group of scammers was just that, a criminal gang. In the case of Doge the group of scammers was just a bunch of marketing retards...
Nevertheless, Bitcoin (no, not "cryptocurrencies", there is not nor can ever be such a thing as "cryptocurrencies") has put an end to all that. So it dun work no more.
Does that answer your question ?
He's not the only one in this situation...
...Groups of scammers use these idiots, exactly like you would use a table...
...In the case of Ripple, the group of scammers was just that, a criminal gang. In the case of Doge the group of scammers was just a bunch of marketing retards...
Nevertheless, Bitcoin (no, not "cryptocurrencies", there is not nor can ever be such a thing as "cryptocurrencies") has put an end to all that. So it dun work no more.
Does that answer your question ?
His opinion of the merits of consensus voting:
The point remains that there exist customers whose custom no one wants. They will gather together somewhere, like all mammals ever do. Just by the simple fact of aggregation they do not achieve notability, nor is the headcount a valid reason to consider any position. Democracy, much like socialism, much like any other utopia, makes for excellent books and movies about history, but for appalling actual history and even worse living conditions. Let's just consider it buried alongside communism and move on.
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I hope you get it, but in the end it makes absolutely no difference whether you get it or don't. The world is changing regardless.
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I hope you get it, but in the end it makes absolutely no difference whether you get it or don't. The world is changing regardless.
A side dish of the fallout from the Fetlife drama is probably also indicated, at the very least the part that goes
TD;LR: You're nothing to nobody. Get your head out of your ass.
IV. Frantic activity is not much of a cover-up for impotence. The true driver of all this "we protest Trilema for making a fool of Fetlife" is exactly the same mental process that drives "Dancing Man", and "kickstarter successes" where some randomly selected derp gets paid a chunk of change for inventing a can of Pepsi or whatever : the derps wish to convince the world, and in convincing the world convince themselves that their appreciation is valuable, and their displeasure dangerous. Because if it were the case that indeed their upvote was worth something, and their downvote had some sort of impact, then they themselves could be said to have value. Some, perhaps not much, but some. Some! Which some is a whole heck of a lot better than none whatsoever, which just so happens to be the case.
TD;LR: You're nothing to nobody. Get your head out of your ass.
He explains that the individualized perspective Web-of-Trust is the proper alternative to consensus, which is also my design for a decentralized social network and the correct design for a DAO-like disruption of consensus organizations:
II. The WoT works by reducing the unknowns problem.i It allows the user - any user - to confidently identify the sources of information, both in the negative and in the positive. That is to say, if sources of information exist, the user may by the WoT find them, and safely assume that should no sources of information be thus found, no sources of information in fact exist. It further allows the user to judge the quality, reliability and precision of said sources, and this independent both of the direct source and of the counterparty he's examining.
His opinion on whether Ethereum will survive his "attack" (and remember he also did the Mt.Gox attack):
Quote from: TheCon
The whole of ETH and DAO was a con to start with. Bunch of rich btc invectors wanted a new play toy. Don't worry folks the price will shoot back up because no one cares if there is security risks or a Ponzi that will never be used by ordinary citizens
DAO is a casino that just got robbed buy like all casinos they never fall because of human greed.
DAO is a casino that just got robbed buy like all casinos they never fall because of human greed.
That [bolded] part is right.