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Mizuho Bank Dealt Blow in Mt Gox Lawsuit Update

http://www.coindesk.com/mizuho-bank-dealt-blow-latest-mt-gox-lawsuit-update/

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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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Building the Foundations for a Scalable Ethereum

Building the Foundations for a Scalable Ethereum

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How a $64M hack changed the fate of Ethereum, Bitcoin’s closest competitor

How a $64M hack changed the fate of Ethereum, Bitcoin’s closest competitor. Some inaccuracies.

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Bitfinex CEO Provides Small Security Audit Update

Bitfinex CEO Provides Small Security Audit Update

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Ethereum Classic Prices Plunge 20% as Trader Interest Wanes

Ethereum Classic Prices Plunge 20% as Trader Interest Wanes. And then there is the upcoming The DAO refund of Ethereum Classic ethers (ETC) and the Baddies get access to their hacked funds.

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The History of the DAO and Lessons Learned

The History of the DAO and Lessons Learned

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Bitfinex to Offer Company Equity to Reimburse Customer Losses

Bitfinex to Offer Company Equity to Reimburse Customer Losses Bitfinex to Offer Equity to BFX Token Holders through BnkToTheFuture

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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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The Wretched, Endless Cycle of Bitcoin Hacks

The Wretched, Endless Cycle of Bitcoin Hacks

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Wikileaks & Snowden-Verified Leaked NSA Data to Auction for 1 Million Bitcoin

Wikileaks & Snowden-Verified Leaked NSA Data to Auction for 1 Million Bitcoin

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Bad News from the Cryptocurrency World

Bad News from the Cryptocurrency World

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The White Hats and DAO Wars: Behind the Scenes

The White Hats and DAO Wars: Behind the Scenes

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Was The DAO an Inevitable Result of Ethereum’s Vision?

Was The DAO an Inevitable Result of Ethereum’s Vision?

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Bruce W On Crypto

Aug 10 2016 – Bruce W on the Bitfinex hack Jul 27 2016 – Bruce W on the Ethereum Hard Fork Jul 13 2016 – Bruce W gives an update on The DAO situation Jun 22 2016 – Bruce W … Continue reading

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Call Blockchain Developers What They Are: Fiduciaries

Call Blockchain Developers What They Are: Fiduciaries

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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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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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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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Reentrancy Woes in Smart Contracts

Reentrancy Woes in Smart Contracts

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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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7,218 Ethers Stolen From Miner With RPC Port Open

User Patrick reported on the TheDAO forum that 7,218 ethers was hacked from his account, shortly after he used the Ethereum Wallet to send a small test transaction to purchase some TheDAO tokens. Using the blockchain explorer view of Patrick’s … Continue reading

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SWIFT’s $81m Hack: Customers Should ‘Do Utmost’ to Avoid More Attacks

SWIFT’s $81m Hack: Customers Should ‘Do Utmost’ to Avoid More Attacks

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Picking Up the Pieces: Erik Voorhees Speaks on ShapeShift Hack

Picking Up the Pieces: Erik Voorhees Speaks on ShapeShift Hack

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