Out of the Ether. Matthew Leising

The absolute ridiculousness of this detail has in fact driven some to believe it was an inside job: certainly someone at slock.it is fucking with us, right? I don't believe this for a second, but as a reporter I became physically stimulated when I first learned this detail in 2017. The devil is in the details, as they say.

      It was 7:30 p.m. in Ithaca as Gün wrote to Phil. He wanted to talk about what he'd found. Phil couldn't get on the phone, but wrote back a few hours later that he didn't think what Gün had found was an issue. “We might be up the creek ; ),” Phil wrote.

      Gün couldn't be sure either. He felt miserable and really wanted to get some sleep.

      They'd found the DAO bug – many others came close but Gün had it exactly right. The problem? They didn't tell anyone. Four days before the hack, Gün and Phil went to sleep that Monday night and momentarily forgot all about the DAO.