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I wonder, why the black hat didn't drain all the money and left it for the white hat group?
by hohenheim 9y ago
I wonder, why the black hat didn't drain all the money and left it for the white hat group?
- sleepychu 9y agoMaybe they estimated that this was the proportion that would protect their gains from a hard fork
- richardknop 9y agoI agree. Probably game theory reasons. Don't steal so much it will cause the community to unite and hard fork. 30 million is enough to retire and probably not enough to cause hard fork and rollback of txs. They played it safe.
- mullen 9y agoI think this is what happened and it makes sense if you think about it. If they steal enough to get rich but not enough to force a rollback, then they can keep their ill gotten gains. 30 million is enough for a small group of hackers to live comfortably for the rest of their lives.
- gus_massa 9y agoMy guess is that they didn't expect it to be so easy, and were surprised by the success, and started to party on, and forget (or were too drunk) to take the rest of the money that was on the table. Anyway, your theory is much better than mine.