“That’s weird,” Vitalik thought. “No money is supposed to be able to come out of The DAO yet.” He went to look at the contract and saw about 100 ether was disappearing from it every second. At this point, the ether price had climbed so the total held in the smart contract equaled about $250 million. As he forwarded the message to Ethereum core developers and the Slock.it team, he didn’t want to believe this was malicious but very soon there was no other way around it. The biggest project ever attempted on Ethereum, a treasure chest that held roughly 14 percent of all ether, was under attack.
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