The Fall of the DAO

In this second part of a two-part series, The Fall of the DAO, we explore the hack that drained 70 Million USD worth of Ether from the DAO smart contract and subsequent battle to reclaim the coins.

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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

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