An open letter- to the attacker
Hi attacker,
I've reviewed your contract and do not consider it valid. Therefore I am making the decision not to enforce it.
Your refer to the code of your contact as authoritative. This is a fallacy.
According to the code that is responsible for administering your contract - namely, the code that mines the Ethereum network, each miner has complete discretion to decide for himself which transactions to include in a block. As miners we have the ability to decide not to recognize your transactions as valid. You knew this when you made the decision to manipulate the contract, so that was a risk you took, which appears to have backfired.
You are welcome to pursue your case in court. Good luck with that!
Sincerely,
A miner
I'll definitely stay far away from a cryptocoin where miners decide to invalidate transactions in hindsight.
Only new transactions, it looks like how freez 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413
Same goes for blocking addresses.
The rules are defined by code and everyone is treated the same. Any exception to that, and there's no way to trust the whole system any more.
truly, i'm 50/50, because this not final release. ipmortant don't refund $ to dao to investors
It was always the case that if 51% of the mining power colluded (for good or for evil) they could pick and choose which transactions to accept and what made a transaction valid. You were always trusting that 51% of the miners would not collude against an honest participant, and there's still no evidence that trust was misplaced.