That makes absolutely no sense at all. How could someone selling coins on an exchange used by a bunch of people get sent specifically to another person as a payoff? And why would balduro paying BCX off with airdrop funds (which would be easily proven, anyone can check) make BCX admit that the airdrop seems valid?

What is much much more likely to have happened is that BCX ran his attack and through that made a bunch in mining fees. If it worked he should have made far more than that anyway. And then, having proven his point and gotten the dev team to acknowledge that, he was satisfied and has either stopped his attack (already having made some coin) or is no longer pushing it while waiting for the fix to get put in.

I hope BCX tries his attack again once the fix is put in, just to test to make sure the fix actually works. I would love to hear confirmation that the fix really solves the problem.