Thoughts on The DAO Hack

We just lived through the nightmare scenario we were worried about as we called for a moratorium on The DAO: someone exploited a weakness in the code of The DAO to empty out more than 2M ($40M USD) ether.

The exploi…

The value of the digital currency Ethereum has dropped dramatically amid an apparent huge attack targeting an organisation with huge holdings of the currency.

The price per unit dropped to $15 from record highs of $21.50 in hours, with mill…

Sometime in the wee hours Friday, a thief made off with $50 million of virtual currency.

The victims are investors in a strange fund called the DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, who poured more than $150 million of a bitcoin-st…

Analysis of the DAO exploit

Phil Daian

So I'm sure everyone has heard about the big news surrounding the DAO getting taken to the tune of $150M by a hacker using the recursive Ethereum send exploit.

This post will be the first in what is po…

The recent debacle surrounding The DAO has shed an interesting spotlight on smart contract technology. Since individual developers wrote the entire concept of this project, it looks like smart contracts are not completely trustless. There i…

Oops. Ethereum's first Decentralized Autonomous Organization, The DAO, has lost money - lots of it. To be specific, it has lost the equivalent of about US$ 60m. This is not because it is a duff idea and no-one can be bothered with it (thoug…

The tragic combination of inevitable bugs and immutable code

Last week witnessed a catastrophic event in the Ethereum ecosystem, when The DAO, a smart contract less than two months old, began rapidly leaking funds to an unknown party. Looki…

David Siegel is a blockchain strategist and speaker, founder of Kryptodesign.com and curator of DecentralStation.com, a place to learn about blockchain.

In this piece, Siegal attempts to help journalists understand what happened when The DA…

Blockchains, Smart Contracts and the Law

…unravelling the legal issues surrounding The DAO

Reuben Bramanathan Blocked Unblock Follow Following Jun 24, 2016

The public debate following the spectacular implosion of The DAO is a good reminder …

Ethereum burst onto the virtual currency scene almost a year ago. It’s similar to bitcoin, but with a key difference. In addition to supporting its own digital currency, ether, it also supports smart contracts, agreements written in compute…

The Dao, the Hack, the Soft Fork and the Hard Fork Antonio Madeira 12 Mar 2019

What was the DAO incident?

In this guide we attempt to cover: how and why The DAO was created, how The DAO was exploited, how the soft fork failed miserably, and…

The History of the DAO and Lessons Learned

Christoph Jentzsch Blocked Unblock Follow Following Aug 24, 2016

There are some things which one can only learn through experience, either one’s own, or that of others. In this post, We would like …

The New Kid on the Block

The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) was set to become the first digital decentralized investment fund. Virtually all its daily operations would be handled, well, virtually. This includes investment plans…

Yesterday, a hacker pulled off the second biggest heist in the history of digital currencies.

Around 12:00 PST, an unknown attacker exploited a critical flaw in the Parity multi-signature wallet on the Ethereum network, draining three massi…

The DAO hack that threatened everything and affected Ethereum

Do you remember how a decentralized autonomous organization can create with the use of Ethereum? In the year 2016, there was a downfall. A startup was working on a DOA project na…

In 2016 a grand idea made its way onto the Ethereum network. The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (The DAO) was created to operate like a venture capital fund for decentralized cryptocurrency projects. The DAO was built as a smart cont…

The Story of the DAO — Its History and Consequences

Samuel Falkon Blocked Unblock Follow Following Dec 24, 2017

One of the most incredible concepts to be successfully implemented through blockchain technology is the DAO, a decentralized aut…

The DAO Hack — Stolen $50M & The Hard Fork.

Cryptonomy Blocked Unblock Follow Following Apr 20, 2018

The last article explained the idea of DAOs, but I think we can’t talk about DAOs without mentioning “The DAO”.

The DAO was the first DAO t…

Security considerations override all other considerations in software in general and in blockchain specifically. If security fails, nothing else matters. Blockchain proves decentralized, trustless transactions work, but many blockchain secu…

The DAO Hack Explained: Unfortunate Take-off of Smart Contracts

Osman Gazi Güçlütürk Blocked Unblock Follow Following Jul 31, 2018

Logo of the DAO

Smart contracts brought distributed autonomous organizations, aka “DAO”s, to our life. A DAO …

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One of the design goals of Ethereum was to simplify the specification of the consensus layer. That’s a noble goal, as it facilitates the re-implementation of the platform for different programming languages and constraints. But even if the …

The DAO (stylized Đ) was a digital decentralized autonomous organization,[5] and a form of investor-directed venture capital fund.[6]

The DAO had an objective to provide a new decentralized business model for organizing both commercial and …

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