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RE: DAO White Hat vs Black Hat and Are pending rewards irreversible?
If the white hats could prove that the final outcome would be the same, then would those who oppose the hard fork of Ethereum back down?
How would they prove it without doing it? How do we know the attacker would not come up with a smarter plan and successfully counteract the white hats action? Your proposition is based on an assumption that cannot be proved until it's actually done.
In the case of Steem it would be trivial for white hats (aka Steemit) to claim the vast majority of all pending payouts with a single vote of the @steemit account.
That kind of action would be a bruit force means of achieving our goals, but using that approach would be perceived similar to us forcing a hardfork on everyone.
In the case of Ethereum, the jury is still out.