Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability

Re:Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability by lazaroclapp on Friday June 17, 2016 @05:18AM (#11921523)

I think they could also be shorting ETH, in dollars/euros/rubles/yuans, in which case destroying the currency would be excellent business for them, even if they can't extract what they stole.

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Re:Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability by pjc50 on Friday June 17, 2016 @05:55AM (#11921641)

Shorting small illiquid markets is very difficult and prone to blowing up in your face. The most recent famous example of this is Porsche/VW: http://www.economist.com/node/12523898

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Re:Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability by brohee on Friday June 17, 2016 @05:32AM (#11921555)

Any (presumably buoyant) entity actually offering that possibility?

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Re:Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability by forgotpwtomain on Friday June 17, 2016 @05:45AM (#11921601)

Poloniex seems to be the exchange with the largest volume (I somehow doubt anyone is buying long-positions larger than that) - so it looks like they could at least cash out several thousand bitcoins - although it's been a while since I've been on their site and if they offer API access some of those positions might be automatically diverted as the price moves.

[0] http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/#markets

[1] https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_eth

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Re:Critical Update on DAO Vulnerability by tinkerrr on Friday June 17, 2016 @06:31AM (#11921782)

Poloniex has apparently stopped trading DAO tokens and ETH as well [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oiesu/polo_froze...

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