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Topic: A newbie just killed Ethereum - page 6. (Read 4071 times)

member
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November 08, 2017, 11:41:42 AM
This is pretty hilarious really, surely there should have been a backup somehow designed in, pretty gutted for the loss of coin though, who did these belong to?

How come "a backup"? This is a nature of contracts! You make a contract and there is no backing down. Whatever behaviour is coded, it  must be executed (followed). Restoring a backup whould mean backing down from the contract.

Actually the previous hard fork  (restoring the DAO money) was backing down from THAT contract and this is why it was so much disconsented and eventually resulted in the creation of the Classic.
member
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November 08, 2017, 11:30:58 AM
I thought this news is just a part of FUD! This is why i told previously that Eth will never beat BTC as the king of Cryptos! Wink
newbie
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November 08, 2017, 11:25:07 AM
This is the craziest shit ever
full member
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November 08, 2017, 11:21:48 AM
#99
Shocked Shocked daaamn , what happend ? This will get ethereum to drop so hard in the next days/weeks , time to move to ethereum classic I guess Smiley). If this is for real then all the ethereum holders will have to suffer from that mistake.

A newb turned a smart contract into a multi-sig wallet, declared ownership and suicided it destroying the library that multi-sig wallets depend on making all the ETH frozen for good.

And with newb I mean; yes, litterally a newb. Apparantly he isn't quite aware of what he did and I think he's scared because he basically just burned like 500k-800k Ethereum (100-300 million USD)

This bit is a little funny honestly, even the small conversation on the link OP provided. I guess will see in the few weeks how this would affect the price, seems that it's currently not affecting it or maybe that's just because not a lot of people knows about this.
GRR
sr. member
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Merit: 250
November 08, 2017, 11:08:29 AM
#98
+3% in 24h. Looks really dead to me.
legendary
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Merit: 1273
November 08, 2017, 11:04:48 AM
#97
I starting to worry about the ethereum developer, two major bugs has happened to ethereum, from the source code bug and now the source code vulnerability, its cost a massive amount of money, with the recent bug I hope ethereum developer will be more careful and strict to review the code.
legendary
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November 08, 2017, 10:59:15 AM
#96
ETH is a minefield with bad script language.

Vitalik is trying to reinvent the wheel of crypto, i respect his work but that's not going to happen.

He should have build his smart contract platform on Bitcoins Blockchain.

Rootstock and Simplicity took that opportunity.
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November 08, 2017, 10:54:37 AM
#95
According to paritytech.io it's the second time a multi-sig issue is find since July!

https://paritytech.io/blog/security-alert.html

"We are analysing the situation and will release an update with further details shortly."

ETH price itself don't move right now, weird. Any news I missed?
The ethereum price gets a little impact due to the parity vulnerability but this time the price already recovered because that was not a problem from the ethereum but the parity dev can't build the wallet properly. This why a lot of the new competitor or ico project try to build the more safe wallet just like eidoo. There is no news right now. but just waiting for the parity dev's explanation regarding it. It's the parity fault and that doesn't make sense to say about the next hardfork for ethereum.
full member
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November 08, 2017, 10:54:07 AM
#94
maybe this is part of a process that is indeed made to increase the price that will be on etherium, because I myself often resemble such news but in the end still there is no problem to worry about.
legendary
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November 08, 2017, 10:44:56 AM
#93
the headline of the topic has nothing to do with the news itself... its bad only for parity wallet holders and i believe it will be fixed soon

Yup, it only affects the parity wallets. Eth in general is still safe. However, i really hope i do not see the re-happening with the eth classic fork again. Eth is a great project, however, such an issue still happen from time to time, and it will create more FUD for eth.
full member
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November 08, 2017, 10:37:44 AM
#92
I was wondering why Ethereum was trending on Twitter.

This article explains the bad news for some Ethereum holders  https://www.cryptpool.net/ethereum-wallet-vulnerability/

I think that this is not true, because. Beginners also have the right to broadcasts and everything else ..
hero member
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November 08, 2017, 10:32:59 AM
#91
According to paritytech.io it's the second time a multi-sig issue is find since July!

https://paritytech.io/blog/security-alert.html

"We are analysing the situation and will release an update with further details shortly."

ETH price itself don't move right now, weird. Any news I missed?
full member
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Merit: 101
November 08, 2017, 10:09:31 AM
#90
It is a sad news that it has to be like this. A curious developer with just one mistake and such a huge impact. I hope they do something about this fast. The founder proposed an EIP to reclaim our accounts but stilll it needs a hard fork to activate it. Now we turn to hard fork to overcome bad programming. How many hard fork has there been and how many hard forks to come? This is just becoming frustrating.
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November 08, 2017, 10:03:40 AM
#89
I was wondering why Ethereum was trending on Twitter.

This article explains the bad news for some Ethereum holders  https://www.cryptpool.net/ethereum-wallet-vulnerability/
Article is also made people by mistake. Article is not always right. If etherium trending in twitter, means twitter user believe in etherium development in future. Just stay tune what will happen in future.
hero member
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November 08, 2017, 09:53:05 AM
#88
How crazy.  I'm a big fan of Ethereum and thankfully didn't have any holdings in parity, but man, it is hard to believe a newb could destroy $100s of millions just while experimenting with some code.  

Not sure why you find it hard to believe. Ethereum is Turing complete and ETH is a public blockchain. That means anyone (amateurs, incompetent coders and hackers) can run code on the system anytime they want, even unvetted insecure code. Will happen over and over again.
sr. member
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November 08, 2017, 09:23:43 AM
#87
Ethereum is a great concept and definitely will have a lot of value in future.
But it looks likes it is not suitable for production yet when dealing with hundred of millions involved.
It should be continuously tested in testnet first.
newbie
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November 08, 2017, 09:19:37 AM
#86
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It's simple really, imagine walking up to a bank vault and there's a button that says "Lock Forever"....... someone accidentally pushes it.
Just..  Shocked

source: Devops199 twitter https://twitter.com/devops199/status/927919624875905025
full member
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Merit: 100
November 08, 2017, 09:13:24 AM
#85
I can't believe that this is possible. I think people should be able to fix this.
full member
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November 08, 2017, 09:07:56 AM
#84
Let's see where this is going...
jr. member
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November 08, 2017, 09:05:23 AM
#83
the headline of the topic has nothing to do with the news itself... its bad only for parity wallet holders and i believe it will be fixed soon
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