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Re:Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week by tyre on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:03PM (#13862343)
The parent is saying that the entire point of Ethereum was to remove fuzzy human-world debates around things like "intent". If it doesn't, then what is the point? That they are decentralized? Who cares, and why?

I don't disagree that Ethereum should have forked, but that is a human response. If we can take human responses to these contracts, then they aren't any different than normal paper contracts.

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Re:Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week by cslarson on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:31PM (#13862622)
Yes it was a human response. One totally within the rules of the protocol - that those using it chose to no longer use it in it's current state but they do chose a slightly modified one. Humans were always the ones responsible for the network as they are for bitcoin.
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