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12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine

The Portal

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The Decentralized Autonomis Organization (DAO)

In 20 16, there was this a smart contract tat a group called salocet, launched called the d a o. It basically means that you can have a smart contract this computer programm that kinch rolls adigital asset andi in code. And so slakcad decided to launch a d a o for their decentralized v c fund. So people could apply the d a O would a vote on which projects were worth investing. But then an attacker stole about four million eith from the dol. Voluntarily stopped after stealing the whole thing; it's not intentional.

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