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He was experimenting with productionized main net code.

• thisisit 9y ago
  You lost me half way there. Experiment and production don't go together. Still what is a productionized main net code? Please elaborate. Though looking at the screenshots, specially in the third one, he claims to be learning. He was experimenting sending kill() and destroy() to contracts on main net.
  • bpicolo 9y ago
    I can clarify. My point is that the code on the ethereum main net is immutable and permanent. If it wasn't this guy, it would have been someone else, either malicious or not. If you deploy code to the ethereum main net, it is vulnerable to the world. The issue isn't that the guy was toying with main net contracts, the issue was that the contract was busted, and there was this room for problems. Ethereum has been extraordinarily prone to these sorts of errors so far (see the DAO). As of now, the foundation is unstable and the stakes are high.