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Re:The Ethereum Price Drop: A Fundamental Analysis by hudon on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @08:40PM (#18660667)
> 3. the btc devs did not decide to abandon the longest chain

See, now you're trying to censor history. Here's a refresher of what happened:

>>> from https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/07/28/analyzing-the-2013-...

Right away, developers start giving out advice to downgrade:

  23:49  Luke Dashjr		surge_: downgrade to 0.7 if you mine, or just wait

  23:50  Pieter Wuille		doublec: do you operate a pool?

  23:50  doublec		yes

  23:50  Pieter Wuille		doublec: then please downgrade now
BTC Guild gets going immediately…

  23:51  BTC Guild		BTC Guild is going back to full default block settings and 0.7 soon.

  00:01  BTC Guild		Almost got one stratum node moved
… even at significant monetary cost.

  23:57  BTC Guild		I've lost way too much money in the last 24 hours
				from 0.8
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Re:The Ethereum Price Drop: A Fundamental Analysis by tfha on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:51PM (#18661005)
Yes, this was done with the consent of the miners, and not by pushing out a hardfork onto the network. The miners could have easily refused to perform the downgrade.

The majority of nodes on the network stuck to following the longest chain rule and noticed nothing out of the ordinary.

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