Folks, it's imperative that Busoni be made whole. He had no reason to suspect there was a disasterous bug in the protocol. I hope the devs will endorse a donation plan once the dust settles.
If a retailer stocks your item in their store, and your item explodes and destroys half the store, shouldn't you try to pay that retailer back?
This community does not have 80 bitcoins and even if it did they would rather blame him for "lax security"
They forget the only reason XCP appear on coinmarketcap site is due to busoni accepting it on his exchange!
Your analogy is straight on, and no other retailer would take the product even if they fix it, it is tainted now, unless a miracle happens
A Retailer wouldn't stock their shelves with a product labeled "in alpha stage, you may lose purchased product, use at your own risk". This is all part of the process when
in new territory. The devs are pioneers and we are the big boys who invested knowing the risks. Stop spreading minor FUD. It won't work XCP will thrive. Thank you Poloniex
for being the first exchange but that does not mean he doesn't have to have better safeguards. It was his system that allowed 7k xcp to be withdrawn before he could
stop it after realizing something happened. Nevertheless, I hope we can donate the full amount for busoni.