Really interesting perspective. I love the "eth's value is the ethereum community's constructive collaborative nature" comment. This can be applied to any community. Those that collaborate more effectively than others will survive. The Darwinian evolution of blockchain networks is fiercely underway.
There is also the possibility that the attacker considers Ethereum a "shitcoin" and wants it to die. I heard someone claiming to be the attacker came into slack and said just that and is offering miners a rather large bounty to not accept the soft fork. I don't know if anyone can verify if it was the attacker or not, from what I've heard he really doesn't have a way to prove it, but I don't know about that. If this is true and the miners accept his bribe, he gets a much larger bounty.
Well-said, eeks. You even have the support of 'a founding ethereum member' (https://distributed-autonomous-society.quora.com/A-Lesson-in-Humility?filter&nsrc=2&snid3=151396221)
I just came across that myself and was going to mention it, good catch!
The real question is this... Why is it only paying $22.09 after scoring an inbound link like that? Something isn't right with that.
Really interesting perspective. I love the "eth's value is the ethereum community's constructive collaborative nature" comment. This can be applied to any community. Those that collaborate more effectively than others will survive. The Darwinian evolution of blockchain networks is fiercely underway.
Hmm the Shapeshift.io shcool of pay the attacker huh.
Community can always just hard fork him into non-existence if he doesn't play ball and the community has the will.
This is equivalent to extortion/ransom. No such agreement would be enforceable, and honoring it would set a bad precedent.
Honoring it would set a great precedence for future massive contracts to not be completely destroyed by attackers.
What makes you think he or she wouldn't run off with that money too?
Etherium has Turing completeness, they can sign a contract... preferably without bugs this time.
There is also the possibility that the attacker considers Ethereum a "shitcoin" and wants it to die. I heard someone claiming to be the attacker came into slack and said just that and is offering miners a rather large bounty to not accept the soft fork. I don't know if anyone can verify if it was the attacker or not, from what I've heard he really doesn't have a way to prove it, but I don't know about that. If this is true and the miners accept his bribe, he gets a much larger bounty.