Stick a Fork in Ethereum

Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by wyager on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:54PM (#12126336)

Well, bitcoin has a much better track record... No political forks that undo transactions. One or two bug fix forks.

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Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by api on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @11:20PM (#12126642)

Satoshi's genius was to disappear. Ethereum's creators have a stake in it, which is a moral hazard.

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Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by Animats on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @01:01AM (#12127003)

Now that's a good point.

The biggest problem with Etherium is that many of the same people are behind Etherium, the DAO, and slock.it.

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Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by zwerdlds on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @11:44PM (#12126728)

This is what ties it all together.

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Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by tostitos1979 on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @10:00PM (#12126364)

Agreed. Bitcoin gets the philosophy right. A fork for bug fixes is a completely different matter than for rolling back transactions.

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Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by CoryG89 on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @07:26AM (#12128189)

They just view the transactions in question as side effects from a bug.

<sarcasm> Ethical dilemma eliminated.</sarcasm>

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Re:Stick a Fork in Ethereum by jegoodwin3 on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @01:14AM (#12127037)

Who will guard the people themselves?

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