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Re:Ethereum hard fork successful with mining majority by davidgerard on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @11:00AM (#12129506)
"beta" isn't really an excuse for a clustercuddle involving $150 million.
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Re:Ethereum hard fork successful with mining majority by daveguy on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @11:25AM (#12129748)
Upvoted for the term clustercuddle. A couple of points:

1) It's probably not unusual to have $150 million in value tied up on the success or failure of a beta.

2) Calling this "beta" was a stretch. I'm of the opinion that the first "beta" should almost always still be called an "alpha" until in-the-wild bug fixes. However, it would be difficult to get $150 million invested on alpha software. It may have been beta for etherium, but it was definitely alpha of DAO.

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Re:Ethereum hard fork successful with mining majority by skybrian on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @11:08AM (#12129587)
Maybe it's not an excuse, but it seems like a reasonable explanation. The system clearly isn't ready to handle $150 million but some folks did it anyway.
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