A response to the information confusion on the DAO attack

This is a response post to the article “Understanding The DAO Hack for Journalists“ I’m surprised of how much errors are in this piece written for journalists. I understand that this is a complicated ongoing topic, but its important to get the information right here. So i will point out just a few things which are definitely wrong: Correcting the article At the time, more than 50 project proposals were waiting for The DAO’s token holders to vote on them. Thats not really true, no proposal was whitelisted by the curators, so DTH could not vote on anything, except informal proposals going to the DAO itself: One can see all …

Add better modals to ethereum:elements

ethereum:elements gives you useful elements to make building a dapp more fun. One element, which was there since a while has now got a better API. Instead of realing on iron:router, it uses now a global object called EthElements.Modal to show and hide modals, read below to see how you can make use of them. Note that when you use the modals in combination with the dapp-styles, they look even more awesome! To start just place a modal placeholder before the closing body tag. {{> dapp_modalPlaceholder}} Render without route To render the modal simply call: EthElements.Modal.show(‘myContentTemplate’); // Or with data for the template EthElements.Modal.show({ template: ‘myContentTemplate’, data: { myData: ‘some …