Ether Pool Operators Back Soft Fork, Says Griff Green After the DAO Hack
Griff Green, a spokesman for Slock.it, the team which founded the DAO, says in an interview with CoinTelegraph that he is privy to some of the pool operator’s discussions and they “very much back the soft fork.” However, he doubts pool operators are willing to go on record and publicly support the fork. Responding to potential suggestions of negotiation with the attacker, Green stated: “I'm not personally open to negotiations because with a hard fork we can get all of the ETH back to the people who were attacked.” He further added: “I think there is a general consensus in the Ethereum....
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