About four hours ago Erik Voorhees tweeted this:
But, last night on the Ethereum subreddit, user Darawk had offered basically the same scenario with the addition that the Dao attacker might short ETH. I wrote about it (last night) here: https://steemit.com/ethereum/@jack1/if-the-dao-attacker-shorts-eth-buys-etc-and-then-refunds-the-dao-hack-victims-on-the-etc-chain
Here's Darawk's original post:
I don't know too much about Voorhees. Obviously, dreaming up this scenario is not rocket science and it has probably occurred to many people since the the hard fork. I'm sure it's possible someone else was writing about the same idea on some forum or platform even before Darawk. With a lot of decently smart people analyzing the exact same events, I guess it's inevitable that multiple people will be making the same speculations. Also, someone operating a twitter account doesn't have any responsibility to check other forums to see if someone else has already published a simple idea. But, it's also really easy for people in the crypto space to borrow a prediction/analysis/idea from one platform and disseminate it as their own on another. We've certainly seen plenty of that here on Steemit.
But, I'm curious what my fellow Steem users think? Would you guess that "shower thought" really just popped into his head today or that he saw it on reddit yesterday?
Of course, both could also be true if he sleepily/lazily scanned over Darawk's post yesterday, forgot about it, and then thought the idea just popped in his head today.