The Fall of the DAO

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Show notes:

Emin calls for moratorium of the DAO based

http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/05/27/dao-call-for-moratorium/

Christian's post on the anti-patterns

https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/10/smart-contract-security/

Nice timeline of the DAO hack

https://medium.com/@slacknation/dao-hack-timeline-823e5a18e894

Protection against the first DAO rewards recursive call bug

https://github.com/slockit/DAO/pull/242

Soft-fork dos vector disclosed

http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/28/ethereum-soft-fork-dos-vector/

Phil Daian explores DAO exploit

http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/18/analysis-of-the-dao-exploit/

Difference between hard and soft fork

https://www.weusecoins.com/hard-fork-soft-fork-differences/

DAO still has over 15 USD worth of ETH in it:

https://www.trustnodes.com/2019/10/07/three-years-on-the-dao-still-has-100000-eth

DAO proposal 59

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5798fbc45e3b63832abc4984b0f3574a13545f415dd672cd8540cd71f735db56

The DAO withdraw contract

https://etherscan.io/address/0xbf4ed7b27f1d666546e30d74d50d173d20bca754#internaltx

Comparing post exploit hard-fork and soft-fork options

https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/the-dao-the-hack-the-soft-fork-and-the-hard-fork/

Outro music:
https://soundcloud.com/zacharywolff/lightweight