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Re:Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital... by pjc50 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @06:00AM (#11768693)
What stops the Ethereum community from disintegrating for the same reasons after the promised rapture is not forthcoming?
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Re:Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital... by drcode on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:28AM (#11769574)
Mainly because it has a benevolent dictator, which creates very different dynamics (for good or ill)
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Re:Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital... by zeven7 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:07PM (#11770811)
Blockstream / Greg Maxwell is Bitcoin's dictator. If you ask whether I'd rather follow Vitalik Buterin or Greg Maxwell, the choice is Vitalik all the way.
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Re:Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital... by drcode on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @04:22PM (#11772751)
They only have enough power though to enforce default behavior (i.e. "do nothing") whereas vitalik probably has enough power to enforce active behavior.
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Re:Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital... by pjc50 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @09:48AM (#11769710)
Ah, decentralisation! :)
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