On Friday, 4 August 2017 at 05:57:00 UTC, Nick B wrote:
See - https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-hacker-stole-31m-of-ether-how-it-happened-and-what-it-means-for-ethereum-9e5dc29e33ce[...]
I don't think the problem was with the blockchain here. It is usually a bad idea to have turing-complete scripts over blockchains. From what I've seen the bug was that there was issued a library call based on a user-provided string. That could have never happened if they would have used D with @safe
