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
Busoni and the devs seem to be confident that they will get back the bitcoins, read xnova and busoni's responses in the last 3-4 pages.
The problem is with the hasty withdrawals some of the members made.
Busoni is rolling back transactions worth 28000 XCP but he cannot roll back the 7000 XCP because it no longer exists with the central address. Our community efforts need to be fill this void.