The fifty-ninth child DAO to appear was called “lonely, so lonely.” After a child DAO was created, there was a seven-day waiting period before the owner could pull their ether from the main DAO, and an additional twenty-seven days before they could withdraw those funds from the child DAO. In the initial one-week period, others could also jump on board, and that’s just what the attacker did with the “lonely, so lonely” split—or, as it would be later be known, the “dark DAO.” The countdown for the “dark DAO” to be able to pull funds from the main DAO had started on June 8. Ethereans had no way
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