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by coinme 3256 days ago
Better techniques are required. Solidity is clearly not ready to be used to secure billions of dollars that can be anonymously stolen in an instant. Fuzz testing should be an absolute minimum. Formal proofs, and a simpler language should be the ultimate goal.

Hopefully the ethereum foundation takes note because this problem is not going away, and they are responsible for 20B$ market cap of value. I realise that ethereum is still young but they have chosen to build a product that can be used in a multitude of ways without enough thought about how to keep the value secure. I wouldn't even know where to start when deciding whether it's safe to use a smart contract, and I understand the concepts well. If ethereum is ever going to grow into it's current market cap if will have to be safer for use by everybody.