Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by hanniabu on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:33PM
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This is not what happened with the DAO. This is well documented and I suggest you read up on. TLDR, the hacker tried to withdraw the funds and there was a 30 day lockup period so the contract was updated to stop this.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by lasagnaphil on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:27PM
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My understanding was that an illicit fund withdrawing was possible because of a bug in the contract code (more specifically a recursive call loophole), and the community executed a hard fork to return those funds to their original owners. I’m curious as to what I’m misunderstanding here.