There's no such thing as the 'DAO Hacker'. The smart contract was executed exactly as written. Sad how when the going gets tough many cryptocurrency enthusiasts crawl back to statist inventions and conventions, but people should have seen the hard fork coming as Ethereum is a premined ponzi to begin with and the initial backers weren't going to let their payoff slip away so easily.
There's a subset of rugged crypto individualists that don't want intervention at any cost - usually the ones that started using cryptocurrencies before the "investment" hype.
I was involved in identifying and locating the attack vector of the DAO Hack, and Matthew and I connected pretty early in his research on it. I like him; he had a strong interest in figuring out what actually happened.
This should be a good read; real-life cyber-ninjas battling things out, and because of the anonymity available to those hacking smart contracts, the entire aftermath went down in an atmosphere of intense paranoia; who could be trusted with security findings? Who was everyone on this skype call? (Yes, it was 2016).
At any rate, this was a really fun and actually pretty important moment in crypto history, I’m glad to see a book about it out and published.
A very childishly written article with no real insight. The real question in my mind is why on earth Bloomberg funded the writer's travel to Switzerland and Japan for this?
