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In the case a single token holder , or a group of token holders , does not a agree with decisions by the curator and following proposals to a certain address, he can split off the original DAO to a new DAO. This mechanism is primarily to avoid the "Majority robbing the minority attack" described in section 4 in the white paper.
This process will destroy all his tokens and move his portion of the Ether owned by the original DAO and his portion of the rewardTokens (used to retrieve his portion of the future rewards) to the new DAO.
After completion, this can not be undone! Everyone participating in a split should know exactly what he is doing in order to avoid any losses.
In this page, we'll describe the technical process. A step-by-step-instruction can be found here.
Process
In order to initiate a split, a token holder needs to create a proposal with the newCurator flag astrue and the recipient specifying the new curator of the new DAO (see How to create a proposal). Every token holder who wants to join this new DAO, needs to vote in favour of the proposal (How to vote and execute a proposal). After the debating period, which is at least 1 week, the token holder can then call the function splitDAO. This function has 2 parameters:
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