Quote from: digi123 on June 30, 2016, 08:23:03 AM

Just to reiterate

Theft is theft. Forget blockchain ideologies.

If the theft of etherium/dao is allowed to go ahead, then should etherium be worth anything?
It would accept stealing as ok and the norm, and be seen to reward such behavior.
A thief should be brought to justice not rewarded. It was an accepted part of the dao that funds wouldn't be released accept for consensus of the dao, not consensus of anyone else. If someone hacked any institution because its security was lax, it would be theft just the same, and the same goes for anything else. There is no such thing as a fair flaw.

This is a theft that can be stopped, so if developers can stop it but choose not to, or don't use anything in their power to stop it, it can be seen as effectively aiding in the theft.

Forget blockchain ideologies they will be meaningless. Everyone take very careful analysis of what is occurring there can be consequences if the theft is allowed to continue.

And consider the effect of a thief holding such a large percentage of ether equals etherium can't be trusted in the future, as it gives power, and may if possible be used to take down the system at anytime in the future with no recourse.

Those that have unfavorably commented on my previous post have shown that they have their head so far up a computer that they have forgotten they live in the real world.
They are also making misleading assumptions about me which shows the state of logic that evolves from them.

Also to consider anyone found to be helping a theft could also be brought to justice.

There may also be ramifications to this that are hard to see at the moment that may have wider implications.

This could be over with a simple fork or whatever is needed.
You do not need to re-compute history, this is a fundamentally difference in the way etherium works, as has been stated in LBT live (thanks Mrpumperitis for link). This also doesn't need to be a president as its so early in etherums development.

I agree with you that if the thief is allowed to steal the funds, then ethereum will have no future.
It will set a precedent that will undermine the entire network. Anyone arguing in favour of the dao token holders losing their funds on this forum are just people that want ethereum to fail. There are plenty of people like that here.