Ok I've been quiet mostly for a few days thinking about this, don't know what the rest of the board thinks really, but its my opinion mintpal does have some kinda responsibility to this. Wouldn't if the network was getting attacked, mintpal should have noticed on day #1. Instead, they ignored it or knew about it, and it went on for 3 days. I've been a little out of it a few days so I picked up bits and pieces of what went down, mintpal doesn't really affect me as I have nothing there and wasn't excited about them to begin with. Now thought from what I hear, we were attacked, and now they are holding your C2 until they are compensated, saying they aren't held responsible for what happened that someone attacked and the devs are...
I think they lost their damn minds... no one is responsible really, the devs can't be blamed for this simply because on a POS system in order for the network to be secure the holders need to at least be staking something, some of you are doing this, most of you are not. Mintpal can't really be blamed other than they are trying to rob us, think about it, the rich list that was made recently, we have narrowed the attackers address down with it, thanks to this thread and you guys pointing him out. We know it says he had 28 mil total at one point, but he only has 1.6 mil left now, there are a total of 54mil real coins across the rich list. At 60 million if we were to pay them what they want, I think it was somewheres around the 20 mil range, we would be hurting you, but they don't care. I agree it was their poor security that allowed this, if their confirmations has been higher to transfer there, the coins that had been created on the other blockchain would have been nulled before they transfered.
Ok long story short, mintpal is trying to screw us, my opinion only.
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A) The community PAID to get on there, something at like 40 votes * whatever they charge to vote.
B) They are trying to go over the limit of coins to hurt you guys.
C)There are 61 mil total C2 thanks to stake, they want 20mil, across the rich list it says there are 100 addresses containing 54mil, most of those belong to holders. Where does that 20mil come in?
Mintpal has no right to treat the C2 holders like this and especially try to lay blame on us.
i understand there is no way to get 20 million.
my suggestion:
1. confirm the lost
2. share the responsibility, certain lost shall be covered by mintpal
3. the remaining lost covered by top100 by certain percentage.
i know ppl will be hurt, buy by this way we can easily and quickly solve the problem. (no more screenshot i guess, and exchanges can do the work)
of course, we have already identified the attacker's address, and the loss amount shall minus the 1.6 million.
if all ppl accept the solution, let dev and exchanges do the math.
don't blame me, i just want a fast solution.