- Who's the "white hat group"? Why do people have confidence in it?
- Why does everyone believe they'll give back $75M+? If they decided to just keep it, what could anyone do?
- How will people even be able to claim ownership of the ETH in a way that's verifiable so they know they're giving it back to the right person?
They are just going to deploy new multi-sig contracts with a fix and make the original owners the owners of the new contracts. Pretty easy to do. They are actually paying for the gas to do the fix using donations they received for their work on The DAO attack so the original wallet owners aren't even out the gas the fix would charge (which isn't all that much but it's nice that they are being made completely whole).
The white hats will deploy a new contract without the faulty constructor with the old owners reinstated. These newly deployed contracts will have all the same information the old ones did but won't be exploitable.
It definitely is an uncanny read.