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Re:$300m in cryptocurrency' accidentally lost forever due to... by nxsynonym on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:40AM (#15653479)
Can someone ELI5 if this is an issue with Ethereum in concept/execution or with Pairity and how they handle Eth?

Is this an issue that can be repeated on different wallet platforms/exchanges easily, or is there something uniquely wrong with Pairity wallet that caused this?

Re:$300m in cryptocurrency' accidentally lost forever due to... by PeterisP on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:55AM (#15653635)
Parity made this particular bug; but the bug and impact raise questions about:

1) Whether the Ethereum/Solidity design and implementation is good enough, because it seems that bugs like this and not like this are far too common and far too easy to make, and a better design/implementation would make such incidents less common;

2) Whether the Ethereum concept/sales pitch of smart contracts that cannot be overridden is actually something that the community wants, and perhaps there does need to be some structured way/process on how flawed contracts can be altered; as the DAO incident is some evidence that we might want a way to alter contracts in certain conditions, but the previously used solution of ad-hoc hard fork isn't a good one. Perhaps we do want smart contracts that can't be overridden in any way whatsoever, but we have to acknowledge that this has a serious price - incidents such as this one.

Re:$300m in cryptocurrency' accidentally lost forever due to... by nxsynonym on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @11:07AM (#15653765)
Thank you! This was super helpful.
Re:$300m in cryptocurrency' accidentally lost forever due to... by tylerjd on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:51AM (#15653582)
With Parity, afaik they had a uninitialized contract owner, which could be and was initialized and subsequently caused the contract to suicide. This has a better writeup: https://medium.com/crypt-bytes-tech/parity-wallet-security-a...