Is Code Law? Should the Hacker Be Punished? The DAO Creators Disagree - Ep.325

Episode • Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 22m

During my research for The Cryptopians, I found information that I believe identifies the perpetrator behind The DAO hack on Ethereum. Three founding members of The DAO and Slock.it (Christoph Jentzsch, Lefteris Karapetsas, Griff Green) discuss how and why they created The DAO, how they helped save the funds being siphoned off by black hat hackers, their personal feelings about The DAO, along with their reaction to the news about who I believe was The DAO attacker. Show topics:

Part 1: Background on The DAO

Christoph, Lefteris, and Griff’s background and how they came to Slock.it
what Slock.it was and why the Slock.it team decided to create The DAO
what The DAO has to do with venture capital funding
why the Slock.it team did not cap The DAO sale
what made The DAO such a popular investment vehicle
why The DAO developers were scared at the amount of money they raised

Part 2:

what Christoph, Lefteris, and Griff’s initial reaction to The DAO was
saving funds from The DAO via a hard fork versus white hat hacking
whether they thought Ethereum Classic would survive a hard fork
how the Ethereum community has treated Christoph, Griff, and Lefteris in the wake of The DAO attack

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