Oktahedron is a podcast by Ksenya @j32804 and Dirk Jäckel @dirkjaeckel.

Very detailed overview of The DAO Attack, the exploit, soft fork & hard fork scenarios, including an awesome diagram representing the architecture of the attack.

As it usually is with mainstream-ish media, this article has some degree of approximation. We post it here just to see what the media says.

We were unsure what to think ourselves, whether to support or oppose the idea of either a soft or a hard fork. First feeling was to oppose the hard fork, as it undermines the idea of the immutability of the blockchain. But after researching the topic more, we could consider it as a good solution.

Statement in support of soft fork and rather heated discussion on whether it will compromise the whole idea of the immutable blockchain:

Gavin’s response to The DAO attack—both verbal and practical—by releasing a version of the Parity client which can support the fork.

A short post in support of the fork.

P2P Foundation post with a slightly different perspective. Very positive, a bit hippie. Blockchains are still better than banks.

Insightful post from the Parity team—no sides really taken, just what can be done. Short and sweet. I might not always agree with posts coming from the Parity team, but they usually have good reasoning.

Some points on legal aspects that we decided not to cover ourselves.

Useful article on the complexity of using blockchain to encode complex public contracts (written by a lawyer and a blockchain expert).

A number of “messages from the DAO Attacker” have been popping up here and there on the internet. None of them are proven to be coming from a person or a team of people who orchestrated the attack.

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