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Re:Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M:... by lawlessone on Friday January 26, 2018 @01:05PM (#16241363)
Lol, hope it isn't made using Solidity
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Re:Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M:... by wrboyce on Friday January 26, 2018 @01:15PM (#16241479)
Care to elaborate on these hopes? And the underlying humour…
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Re:Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M:... by larkeith on Friday January 26, 2018 @01:37PM (#16241675)
There's a lot of sentiment against Solidity as a language, for fairly good reason. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14691212

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Re:Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M:... by KMag on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:04PM (#16242887)
Solidity answers the question "What if smart contracts used a lot of implicit behavior to hide necessary (as opposed to incidental) complexity, and used a JavaScript-like syntax and encouraged intermediate state mutation in order to attract your average web front-end-developer?"
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