Hello everybody! As you know, I was able to exploit the recursive split attack vector in TheDAO and was able to successfully drain 3.6 million ether from TheDAO on June 17. I gave a well received interview about the how I successfully launched the attack, although I couldn't resist making fun of Stephan Tual.

Due to popular demand, I've given another interview! Currently I am poring over the ethereum hard fork proposal - surely there must be another exploit in there somewhere! But I know my legion of fans deserve to get an update straight from the source, so I've taken a few minutes to give an update. I also want to appeal to the sense of justice within the ethereum community - I have earned these funds from TheDAO! I used my ingenuity and followed the contracts exactly as they were written - code is law, as Mr. Tual said before he realized the code in TheDAO was flawed.

This hard fork proposal has only cause a lot of uncertainty... look at the ethereum price! The 3.6m ether I took was once worth about $70 million, now it's currently worth just under $40 million. If the ethereum community decided that there would be no hard fork, then the uncertainty of something going wrong with the hard fork would be removed and the price would stabilize. And really, can you trust the Slock.it developers to produce flawless code? I don't, that's why I'm searching it for an exploit. Now, some of you might be worried about me having so many ether when ethereum switches to Proof of Stake. But that worry is unfounded! I plan on dumping that 3.6m ether as soon as I get it from the DarkDAO. Problem solved! Let's all be reasonable and take the safe approach and not hard fork ethereum. #TeamNoFork

Here's my latest interview again.

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