Do you even realize what the other options were???
You are so stupid you don't even deserve the opportunity to own a computer.
The other option was for people had to learn a hard lesson from their mistakes, and mintpal to make it right. Now, MintPal gets off almost scott free, and nobody learns anything.
As for the idiots saying bitcoin has done this before - that's completely untrue.
The bitcoin community has twice previously encouraged miners to use a specific client to cause one fork to win out over another. Neither of these cases had anything to do with stolen coins on an exchange, both forks had something directly to a fault in the bitcoin source code. HUGE difference. And, each time bitcoin did this, it was by consensus of the entire mining community...
Proof of Share - aka, Proof of Nothing...
The vericoin team has my support as one of the 70% not effected to remedy the situation to get everyones coins back. Even if it means short term loss of a few bucks. Nobody with VRC on the mintpal who had it stolen would be in good shape, the thief would get away with money.
You wake up one morning with a frantic message, 30% of the coins from a major exchange security issue caused ur community to lose such a large amount what would you do?
Most devs would say, I will develop another coin, seeya!
The vericoin devs stepped up and create value where others tried to steal it.
Vericoin is the real deal. If we the community band together, and don't let the fud take us apart we will grow through these pains and be stronger, larger because of it.