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> A few hours before it was supposed to be released a few members of the community found a bug with the implementation that opened a denial-of-service attack ve
by tromp 9y ago
> A few hours before it was supposed to be released a few members of the community found a bug with the implementation that opened a denial-of-service attack vector. This soft fork was designed to blacklist all the transactions made from The DAO
In particular, blacklisting DAO operations means that one can broadcast transactions that perform huge computations but just before running out of gas, perform a DAO operation. This huge waste of resources by miners cannot be compensated if the transaction cannot be included...