The Ethereum community proposes to roll back their blockchain to reverse the theft of 3.5 million ETH.

Here the thief proposes to independent ETH miners that enough of them refuse to rollback the ETH blockchain, by virtue of staying with the old version of the software.

If the ETH blockchain is not rolled back, the thief proposes to share the loot - about $10 million worth - with the agreeing miners, making them collaborators in the theft.

Apparently, the attackers also shorted ETH before the attack. Given the resulting ETH price cash after the attack, the attackers made off with real bitcoin by closing the short trades, even if they fail to withdraw any of their stolen ETH.

Amazing.