Breaking: “Pause Ether, DAO Trading”, Ethereum Founder Buterin Tells Exchanges

Breaking: “Pause Ether, DAO Trading”, Ethereum Founder Buterin Tells Exchanges

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has asked digital currency exchanges to “pause” ether and DAO activity following a hack of the DAO smart contract address. The DAO is currently being drained of ethers in a still-ongoing breach (at the time of publishing) to the unknown attacker’s ETH address. The ongoing hack and possible theft, deemed as an “attack” on the DAO by Vitalik Buterin, has the co-founder of Ethereum issue a plea seeking digital currency exchanges to pause ether (ETH) and DAO transactions. In a post on the Ethereum subreddit, Buterin wrote: <DAO ATTACK> Exchanges please....


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