(some ethereum historica. formative, circa 02016)
“The descriptions didn't matter; only the code did. The descriptions didn't allow for today's hack, but the code did. (By definition! If the code could be hacked, the code allowed for the hack.)” in http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-17/blockchain-company-s-smart-contracts-were-dumb
* https://medium.com/@oaeee/the-rise-of-the-dark-dao-72b21a2212e3
"Now that it has turned out that The DAO was also a huge multi-million bug bounty program"
* "We have witnessed the first notable failure of a smart contract. In the wake of this disaster, something profound happened: the nascent flame of a decentralized legal system has materialized" https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4on8ot/did_the_death_of_the_dao_accidentally_give_birth/
* hard problems https://blog.blockstack.org/the-road-ahead-for-ethereum-b5b090bcd1a
* proposed forks, soft & hard & implications https://medium.com/@Alex_Amsel/understanding-proposed-ethereum-forks-6abd63a478fc
* thinking about smart contract security. https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/19/thinking-smart-contract-security/