Such an elegant solution. After crawling through thousands of lines of disassembled code and finding a pretty significant logical error, the solution was as simple as a tiny patch to a configuration asset.
Finex may have played this badly, but it was clearly stated in their statement on how they were handling the fork. If you didn't like their approach, all you had to do was move your coins off the exchange and split them yourself. It wasn't (too) difficult to do, and I say that as someone who isn't really technical, but can follow simple instructions.
Still to be charged at the full rate to the student, of course. This is just to get them started.
I have to say, out of all the things the DoD pays for with its massive budget, things like paying the NFL to fly F16s over stadiums, or TV ads, or sponsoring college courses are what really grinds my gears.
I have a question that I hope someone can answer for me. I've owned about a dozen or so digital currencies as far back as 2012. Ethereum is one I am still trying to understand. My question is this - How does the functionality of Ethereum (it's blockchain and all that comes with it), convert to the valuation of one ETH being worth $300, or $500, or $100, etc.? How will ETH (the digital currency) be used that will give it these valuations? I understand other currencies. Take Ripples XRP for example; the more banks that are transacting with XRP, the higher the demand is for XRP, which equates to a higher valuation of XRP. So how does Ethereum and ETH get their values? Can companies use Ethereums service without increasing the demand for ETH (digital currency)?
So from the article, it sounds like DoublePulsar is already patched, but due to computers lacking the patch, it still got in. Have I got that right? Also, what is the attack vector here? Because if, like wannacry, it was an email, then surely the defence is the same as before, be careful what you download?