Miners Aren’t Friends

Re:Miners Aren’t Friends by DINKDINK on Sunday January 14, 2018 @02:33PM (#16145827)

>Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.

Except that ethereum is lying when they say this. The DAO contract was nullified and censored. The Ethereum Foundation and the DAO team were bailed out and had preferential treatment.

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Re:Miners Aren’t Friends by anjc on Sunday January 14, 2018 @08:45PM (#16147830)

And how was the contract nullified exactly?

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Re:Miners Aren’t Friends by robert_davidson on Sunday January 14, 2018 @10:21PM (#16148267)

It was replaced with a new contract via a hard fork. Doing so was the right move, by far, but purists loathe the move.

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Re:Miners Aren’t Friends by anjc on Monday January 15, 2018 @04:45PM (#16153727)

I was partially being facetious :) But you said it precisely, it was via a hard fork, which was agreed upon in a democratic fashion. The person I was replying to was suggesting that transactions were simply revoked from Ethereum-HQ, which is far from the case.

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