Buterin, the developer of crypto 2.0 platform Ethereum and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, received the honour at the WTN's 2014 summit held at the Time & Life building in New York City. Buterin was the only big name in the digital currency industry to win an award at this year's WTN event.
Spurious Dragon was another unplanned fork on November 22nd, 2016, which included four proposals related to fixing unwanted behaviour: EIP-155, EIP-160, EIP-161, EIP-170
At block 4,501,969, devops199 calls kill() on a Parity's WalletLibrary contract rendering all Parity Multisigs unusable. This sparked a big debate through EIP-999 with the proposal to restore the contract code at the address that was self-destructed. The loss due to the frozen assets at the time was over $300M. devops199 address: 0xae7168deb525862f4fee37d987a971b385b96952