KAkator·Jun 18, 2017
In Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heistblockchainsllc
DAO
TeX2016–2021
blockchainsllc / DAO
DAO
The Standard DAO Framework, including Whitepaper
18Distinct people
21Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.6KGitHub stars
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What it is
The Standard DAO Framework, including Whitepaper
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- thedao/dao-1.0 · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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HN mentions by year21 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2016-04-04 01:12:46 UTC to 2021-12-06 21:14:51 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 18 | 1 | 17 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sources> Another decision he made when he had no idea of the bug shows how quirky and unforgiving code can be. “If the capital ‘T’ in line 666 had been a small ‘t,’ that would also have prevented the hack,” he says.
Can someone familiar with this explain how something financially based can have a capitalization flaw? I would expect a smart contract language to have very strict type and variable linking. Humans make many mistakes in coding but most of the time it doesn't cost $55m. A transaction language should be very strict so either the smart contract language is flawed or the author of this article is overstating something for dramatic effect.
EDIT: Found this: https://github.com/slockit/DAO/blob/v1.0/DAO.sol#L666
on a deeper dive: http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/18/analysis-of-the-dao...
In Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist