So, I thought that I could write a quick summary if most of the events following the hack and the fork. This is probably biased towards the anti-fork and ETC side, but I imagined that it could shed some light on the actions of the governing bodies of the ETH blockchain. The list of events starts from before the hack until now. I have missed some parts but many of these are the reasons I personally decided to not support the ETH blockchain in it's current state. If anyone have anything to add, critique or correct, please do so.

 

• Stephan Tual proclaims the DAO is safe. Somewhere before the hack Emin Sirer writes a post that he knows how to empty the DAO using the recursive call split explot. Emin later points out this and Stephan Tual then points fingerd at Emin Sirer being the supposed hacker.

• DAO hack happens.

• Stephan Tual says that he would like to know the identity of the people that oppose a hardfork. http://imgur.com/O72VpnM

• Vitalik Buterin asks exchanges to stop trading ETH.

• The RHG is created and secures the remaning DAO funds.

• A small percentage of miners get to vote where the support for both a SF and a HF, were the votes in favor of the fork was overwhelming. Later a carbonvote is set up where a small amount of all ETH holders got to vote, this one is also overwhelming in favor for the HF and supposedly 25% of the yes votes were from one single holder.

• Vitalik Buterin later proclaims that "12% is big enough to give a very reliable idea of the community's sentiment, and carbonvote was up long enough that I'm satisfied that people got ample opportunity to participate." https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4vzpic/vitalik_says_he_wont_support_etc_even_if_it/d636hhf

• The fork is proclaimed a success. https://twitter.com/initc3org/status/758000698881613824

• Vlad Zamfir decides to not fix replay attacks because he didnt think the fork would survive since he thought it would immediately hardfork. https://twitter.com/VladZamfir/status/759552682013102080

• Stephan Tual calls ETC dead because the replay attacks will render the ETC "quickly irrelevant". https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/1200/1*kFggzR6io-wS_vY3JaIO0A.png

• ETC makes a giant price surge and get the backing of miners, investors, ETH-holders, EF members and other parties.

• Skypechat leaks from EF foundation members Fabian Vogelsteller and others discuss selling ETC-shares http://imgur.com/a/DHexx

• Alex Van de Sande writes an article where he denies that the EF and their members were financially motivated in their actions, and that the fork was made against the the wishes from the community. https://medium.com/@avsa/the-truth-about-the-fork-fd040c7ca955#.gi5w406bs

• Developers for ETH rally under the banner of "I am 100% ETH", following a tweet where Vitalik were asked if he would develop for ETC would the fork reach parity with ETH or overtake it. When ETC/BTC reached an all time high of 0.006 and ETH/BTC hit a low of 0.014, this possibility wasn't that far fetched.

• White hack commences. No messages were at all relayed during the attack from the RHG group to reveal their intent, until the funds were transferred to exchanges. The RHG group states that "signals from the community" said that they should dump it on exchanges for ETH, and refund it to DAO-holders and the foundation. No reply thus far on either who these signals were or how supposedly an amount of top developers/hackers did not have the ability to create a refund in ETC. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4xasg3/follow_up_statement_on_the_etc_salvaged_from/

• Fabian Vogelsteller denies that anyone in the Foundation had anything to do with the DAO, the RHG "whatsoever" and like Alex Van de Sande, he also proclaims that "almost nobody from the foundation owned DAO tokens, ASFAIK. And if rather little." https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4xcqwk/etcdao_stolen_coins_frozen_by_exchanges_was_sent/d6edca7

 

So what can we gather from this, if everyone is speaking the truth and all these sources are legitimate?

 

• Noone in the EF had any financial connection to the DAO, but still pushed the fork without regards to consensus.

• Members of the EF is involved with selling their stake in the ETC blockchain.

• Noone in the EF had any connections to the RHG, these were probably contractors outside of EF.

• The "signals" from the community were not from the EF, rather some yet unseen entity that has not made itself known yet since the communication between the RHG and the ETH/ETC-community seemed to be silent during the transfers to the exchanges.

• EF and it members wasn't interested at all in saving their own assets and stakes in the DAO since most of them didn't have any, and the push for the fork was strictly to save the DAO token holders and adher to the wishes of the community.

 

So where does this leave us right now? Who or what entity is holding the funds in Poloniex? Since poloniex is a regulated exchange, the account that holds all the recovered funds surely must be held by a real person and he surely could be brought to stand trial in court if any owner of DAO thought so?