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Re:Status – A Mobile Ethereum OS by max_ on Friday April 21, 2017 @02:58AM (#14163595)
>The problem is forking to undo a specific transaction. That should never happen.

Ethereum already had plans to from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake as a consensus algorithm (in Q3).

The attacker stole over 10 million ETH

How would you feel using a system whose transactions are audited in majority by a thief?

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Re:Status – A Mobile Ethereum OS by JeremyBanks on Friday April 21, 2017 @08:50AM (#14165062)
I'd be concerned. But the community already accomplished that by recklessly creating the situation in the first place, from which there was no truly good outcome.
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