Brand Lettievie here, welcome back to malicious life. The hacking of the Dow a

a popular decentralized application from 2016 is a story somewhat different than those generally covered on malicious life.

Instead of the types of attacks we've become accustomed to,

the Dow Hack occurred over Ethereum, a blockchain technology.

Blockchain is quite unique.

It operates differently from normal computer networks

and therefore the security protocols associated with it are quite different as well.

Actually, scratch that.

Blocchane isn't just different or unique, It's strange. Consider this. When the platform got hacked, everybody, not just the security experts, but everybody, knew how to thwart the hacker.

So the question really was never about how to stop the hacker.

It was whether to do so in the first place. I mean think

about that for a second. It's like a bank getting robbed and instead of trying

to get the money back, the customers of the bank all get together and debate.

Should we try to get our money back?

Or just forget about it.

Today on malicious life, tens of thousands of people get robbed.

Then a community gets together to ask,

should we take our money back or let the hacker walk with it.

To begin to understand why thousands of people might prefer to see a hacker pocket millions of dollars

then return that money to its rifle owners, you first have to know a bit about how blockchain works.

Etheorem is arguably the world's most successful blockchain platform to date.

It's what you'd call a second generation iteration of blockchain tech, the first being

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