The programmer with the devops199 nickname, who worked with his smart contracts Parity, mistakenly deleted the library, which provides the work of wallets registered from the middle of summer to the present. Now about $ 280 million in ether equivalents have been frozen in purses, which, it seems, will not be able to be restored.
The service of multi-signature purses Parity was considered one of the safest, because to access this wallet and for various operations it is necessary to have several digital signatures. This is very convenient, because the attackers of one code to access the wallet will not be enough. Therefore, Parity wallets were often used by various funds, start-ups and large private holders. The wallet can be configured "by itself", setting security parameters and transaction rules, in addition, Parity worked much faster than the official client, which was also a huge plus.
It is known that in an unpleasant situation was Gavin Wood, the head of Parity, who froze Ether for about $ 90 million. The complete list of owners of blocked purses is laid out in a special document compiled by the Parity team.
The company published an official statement in which it said that frozen due to a programmer's mistake to withdraw funds or transfer somewhere else, most likely, it simply will not work out that way. Head of Security Ethereum Foundation believes that the only option for salvation is hardfork. In the case of the hard-core, the ether code is modified such that its nodes will need to be updated. Without updating, the old nodes will no longer understand the new ones, as a result of which two completely disconnected networks will appear.
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