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

 

Part 3:

• why they disagree on whether code is law
• their reaction to my naming Toby Hoenisch as The DAO attacker
• which actor would play them in a movie about The DAO attack

Come to My In-Person Book Signings and Events!

New York: 

Wednesday, March 2, at 7pm

At The Strand Bookstore

Moderated by CoinDesk’s Christine Lee

https://www.strandbooks.com/events/event403?title=laura_shin_the_cryptopians_idealism_greed_lies_and_the_making_of_the_first_big_cryptocurrency_craze

 

Bay Area: 

Tuesday March 8, 6pm

San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club 

Moderated by The Information’s Kate Clark

https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2022-03-08/laura-shin-inside-first-cryptocurrency-craze

 

Seattle: 

Wednesday March 9, at 7:30pm

The Forum

Moderated by Steve Scher, of Town Hall Seattle. 

https://townhallseattle.org/event/laura-shin/

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Episode Links

 

Guests

• Christoph Jentzsch

• ​​https://twitter.com/ChrJentzsch

• Griff Green

https://twitter.com/thegrifft 

• Lefteris Karapetsas

https://mobile.twitter.com/LefterisJP 

 

DAO Hacker Reveal: 

• Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2022/02/22/exclusive-austrian-programmer-and-ex-crypto-ceo-likely-stole-11-billion-of-ether/

Unchained: https://unchainedpodcast.com/exclusive-cryptos-biggest-whodunnit-who-was-behind-the-2016-dao-attack-on-ethereum/ 

Medium: https://medium.com/@laurashin/who-hacked-the-dao-on-ethereum-heres-how-we-jumped-past-one-critical-step-60aec489a127

Bulletin: https://laurashin.bulletin.com/who-was-behind-the-2016-dao-attack-on-ethereum-the-backstory-to-my-investigation

Forbes on YouTube: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuICbAucfn0 

Daily Tech News Show: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1306972988 

 

The Cryptopians

http://bit.ly/cryptopians 

On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptopians-Idealism-Greed-Making-Cryptocurrency/dp/1541763017/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1645037311&sr=8-2

On Barnes. &. Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cryptopians-laura-shin/1138980345?ean=9781541763012 

On Bookshop.org:  https://bookshop.org/books/the-cryptopians-idealism-greed-lies-and-the-making-of-the-first-big-cryptocurrency-craze/9781541763012

Unchained: https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-writing-the-cryptopians-shaped-my-views-on-ethereum/ 

 

The DAO Hack

• https://www.coindesk.com/learn/2016/06/25/understanding-the-dao-attack/
• https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-makerdao
• https://unchainedpodcast.com/how-matthew-leising-confronted-his-suspects-in-the-dao-attacks/

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