Popescu is not the "daotacker"
I was also contemplating that.
There are so many possibilities. He may have just been along for the short.
I can't wrap my mind around what the reality really is in our ecosystem. I've decided to stop even trying to understand.
Some here have the vocation of speculator and all they typically care about is a good pump or dump. That is not my vocation. I can't relate to them. Some of them apparently earn a lot of $, but that isn't a sufficient motivation for me to change my vocation. I am creator. A programmer. A technologist. Etc.. I am not an arbitrage seeker. I'll leave that vocation to others and not dilute my capabilities by trying to understand them.
Yes the attacker is on the move again right now. He donated some ether into the DAO and joined both whitehat splits. We drained the ETH he donated as fast as we could but he got what he wanted.
An attacker in now part of split 78 and he can now do the split attack again in that white hat DAOs.
Analogous to the unbounded recursion of Turing-complete scripting, the splitting can be recursed. Are we surprised.
I found some interesting musing on Ethereum vulnerabilities at that link but no mention of Monero or XMR. What did I miss?
Nothing, ETH is garbage. I can't say Monero doesn't have vulnerabilities but they are not in the same fashion as ETH obscurity-by-complexity model.
Do you believe in conspiracies? I'll tell what I think about Ethereum since I watched it from the beginning, its a plot from part of the Bitcoin elite, the same that funded and nurtured with their owned outlets, that dominates the mainstream and directs the narrative naming the "villains" and whom the sheep should listen to and that promotes that bootleg of fungible currency named Zcash. Ethereum was created to slaughter as many idiot sheeps as they can, it may look like it has a purpose and utility but if you take enough time to examine it you'll find its all smoke and mirrors, some day a bitcoin aristocrat will look at the pile of smoking ruins that was ethereum and at the hundreds of thousands of USD lost and say: "oh well it was a fun experiment", turn away and laugh, while hundreds of sheep will be look at their empty pockets and wondering what happened, because thats what they like to do and thats why true innovative currencies like Monero is being ignored by the same part of the Bitcoin elite.
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486939That has always been my assumption as well.
I figured that is why some geekcool, technobabbling, spacedout WoW teenager running it was a perfect fit.
And remember Peter Thiel awarded $100,000 scholarship to Vitalik, at the early juncture.
Note the ideas from Ethereum may not be entirely garbage. I originally thought they were, but I'm leaning otherwise now.