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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by celticninja on Friday June 14, 2019 @08:00AM (#20182240)
The existence of ETC says to me that ETH has the same problem, that is a bunch of power users can change the rules if they want to (if it is financially beneficial for them to do so). No different to a fiat currency controlled by the government.
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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by magnamerc on Friday June 14, 2019 @12:27PM (#20184261)
Yeah that's just wrong. If you want to change the rules, you need to update the client software which means forking. Are you saying that a group of core devs can fork the chain and not have it be contentious?
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Re:Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers by celticninja on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:34PM (#20187225)
That's what happened with Ethereum.
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