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Firstblood 1ST Presale Tokens Commencing In 20 Minutes

Firstblood is a “Decentralized eSports Platform Based on Smart Contracts”. This is just a quick look into the smart contract behind the crowdfunding. Update 00:08 Sep 26 2016 AEST – The crowdsale hit the maximum cap limit of raising 465,313 … Continue reading

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Ethereum Wallet `geth` Client Not Syncing – Possible Problems With Bootnodes

Some people are experiencing problems getting their Ethereum Wallet, Mist or geth node client to synchronise with the Ethereum network. See the following posts for my temporary workaround: Reddit – Ethereum Wallet geth Client Not Syncing – Possible Problems With … Continue reading

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The DAO Final ExtraBalWithdraw Contract Has Now Been Topped Up – All Refunds Now Active

The DAO ExtraBalWithdraw Contract Has Now Been Topped Up

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The DAO 1.0 – The Bug And The Hack, The Refunds, Plus The Source Code And ABI

Originally posted Sep 15 2016. Updated Oct 29 2016 with The DAO hacker successfully converting ~ USD 100,000 of booty into bitcoins The DAO, the first-of-a-kind decentralised autonomous venture capital fund on the Ethereum virtual currency blockchain started it’s 28 … Continue reading

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The Final The DAO Refund Starting On September 15th

The final refund from The DAO due to the hack will commence tomorrow – see ExtraBalance Withdraw Contract to be Funded on September 15th. See also my Ethereum.StackExchange.com Q&A – How do I get a refund for the amount I … Continue reading

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Checking Out FlightDelay, A Decentralised Flight Delay Insurance Smart Contract

Announcement FlightDelay DApp: one of the first full-fledged business applications is live on mainnet: Great announce: The FlightDelay DApp https://fdd.etherisc.com is finally online on mainnet. For a detailed description see here: http://medium.com/@skarpischek/youll-love-to-be-late-for-devcon-two-e711bbe750c0#.bffjjtq0g . The DApp is one of the first … Continue reading

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DAO Hacker Donates Some Stolen Funds To The Ethereum Classic Developers

DAO Hacker Donates Some Stolen Funds To The Ethereum Classic Developers. Reference to my Reddit post The Hacker Has Just Withdrawn Their Booty From The DAO On The ETC Chain.

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How Does The Ethereum Multisig Contract Wallet Execute Contract Functions?

In particular, how does the wallet execute(…) function call the functions in other contracts? I’m trying to work out how contract wallets execute The DAO refund contract approve(…) and withdraw() functions, as this was asked by a user referencing the … Continue reading

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The Stolen DAO Funds Are On the Move

The Stolen DAO Funds Are On the Move

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All Eyes on Ethereum Classic As Hacked DAO Funds Is On The Move

All Eyes on Ethereum Classic As Hacked DAO Funds Is On The Move. Reference to my Reddit post The Hacker Has Just Withdrawn Their Booty From The DAO On The ETC Chain.

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The DAO ExtraBalance Account Refund

@ledgerwatch in thedao.slack.com/messages/extrabal_community/ has deployed the ExtraBalToken contract at 0x5c40ef6f527f4fba68368774e6130ce6515123f2 in block #2,197,120 with transaction 0x6f5ea6f387722f2899789947a37703f211983b74215b0b15f5bb4b3835b63bc6.

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How do I convert my The DAO tokens into ethers on the Ethereum Classic chain?

The Goodies have announced Whitehat Withdrawal contract – Update and Next Steps and Whitehat Withdrawal contract – Last update before deployment that they will be deploying the withdrawal contracts whetcwithdraw.sol and crosswithdraw.sol to facilitate the withdrawal of Classic Ethers (ETCs) … Continue reading

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When will the Baddies have access to the hacked funds on the Ethereum Classic chain?

The Baddies will have access to the hacked funds from either Mon, 05 Sep 2016 21:56:22 GMT. Non-Split Proposal #59.10.1 can be executed from Mon, 05 Sep 2016 21:56:22 GMT and Non-Split Proposal #59.10.2 can be executed from Mon, 05 … Continue reading

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One Month After Ethereum Fork, Millions in DAO Funds Still Unclaimed

The article One Month After Ethereum Fork, Millions in DAO Funds Still Unclaimed references the data I generated at github.com/bokkypoobah/TheDAOETHTokenBalance.

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Validating The Goodies’ The DAO Token Balance Contract For An ETC Refund

I’ve just finished reconciling the Goodies’ The DAO Token Balance contact that they are planning to use to refund ETCs to The DAO token holders on the Ethereum Classic blockchain. See: github.com/bokkypoobah/TheDAOETCTokenBalance How can I verify that my The DAO … Continue reading

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Hacked Coin Movements In The DAO ETC Chain

See my analysis of the movements of coins (ETCs) within The DAO on the Ethereum Classic blockchain at The DAO ETC Drains. In summary, there are movements of ETCs within the following The DAO split proposals on the Ethereum Classic … Continue reading

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The DAO ExtraBalance Refund

The curators are preparing to refund the amounts accumulated in The DAO’s ExtraBalance, amounts that were paid by investors in the last two weeks of The DAO’s crowdfunding period above the 1 ETH = 100 DAOs. This is covered in … Continue reading

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Solidarity With ETH

I have pledged my solidarity with the Ethereum ETH chain. From Only 100% ETH Is Accepted In My King Of The Ether Classic Kingdom:

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Game Of Clones

The DAO hacker stole 3,641,694 ethers (ETH), ~ 50 million USD, from the Ethereum blockchain 17/06/2016. The block chain was hard-forked on 20/07/2016 to move the stolen coins into a trustee’s wallet to refund to The DAO investors, only in … Continue reading

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King of the Ether Throne Classic

The old pyramid scheme King of the Ether Throne (KotET) is back with the ability to fork new kingdoms. So I had to try it. The last version was shut down due to a payout bug. The new version allows … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Ethereum

Ethereum is one year old today. Here is Block #0: It has been an exciting first year: 24/07/2016 –Poloniex decided to enable the trading of the non-hard-forked blockchain, called Ethereum Classic (ETC), on their exchange. ETH holders before the hard-fork … Continue reading

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Free Ethers Anyone?

The forking party continues. Poloniex livened up the party today. They enable the trading of Ethereum Classic (ETC) on their exchange. ETC is the non-hard-forked version of the Ethereum blockchain. I quickly checked out the smart contract that will allow … Continue reading

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The Ethereum Hard-Fork

The Ethereum community has been having an all night (Australian time) forking party. Just before 23:31:30 20/07/2016 AEST, the planned hard-fork in the Ethereum node software transferred all ethers locked in the hacked The DAO and it’s child DAOs into … Continue reading

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Meet The Forkers

Here is my summary of the funds stolen by The Baddies and moved by The Goodies, with more details at How many ethers have been drained through the recursive call attacks on The DAO?:

And the detail results:

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The DAO War – The Goodies Strike Back

I woke up this morning and checked my The DAO recursive call attack notification system on my tablet and saw the following messages:

Another round of attacks on The DAO funds. I checked the net and was pleasantly greeted … Continue reading

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The DAO War Has Begun!

The DAO was attacked on 17/06/2016. Hackers found a “recursive call” vulnerability in the code for The DAO and drained ~30% (3,641,694.241898506 ether, ~ USD 59,578,117.80) of the ethers held by the smart contract running The DAO on the Ethereum … Continue reading

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The DAO 1.1 (In 2 Week Review Period)

From Proposal Framework 1.0, DAO 1.1 draft!. See also Announcing DAO Framework 1.1 and Upgrading The DAO to Framework 1.1: a Step by Step guide. The source code is available from https://github.com/slockit/DAO.

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The DAO Proposal Framework 1.0

From Proposal Framework 1.0, DAO 1.1 draft!. Read the specifications from the wiki at Proposal Framework v.1.0. And here is a proposal submission guide: How to submit a Proposal to the DAO. See also How to Create Gorgeous Proposals.

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theDAOVoter, A Command Line Tool For Listing And Voting On The DAO Proposals

I have created a command line tool called theDAOVoter to list and vote on The DAO proposals. When you have voted for a The DAO proposal, your account is blocked from voting from the same proposal. Furthermore, your account is … Continue reading

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The DAO And The Art Of Herding Cats

“The DAO” is a decentralised autonomous organisation (program) running on the Ethereum blockchain that was crowd-funded by the Ethereum currency ethers. The crowd-funding phase ran from 30/04/2016 until 28/05/2016, and raised 11,725,223.90 ETH (USD 162,394,351.07 currently) in the main The … Continue reading

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