Re:Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway
by kalleboo on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:54AM
(#20231908)
> Also the use of the word "embarassing" makes me wonder if you truly understand what massive efforts it takes to create something as ambitious as Ethereum without running into some critical bugs.
What made the fork controversial was that it wasn't a bug in Ethereum itself (Bitcoin also had a fork due to a code bug and that was wholly uncontroversial), but rather a bug in a single contract.
Bugs in contracts will always happen, since, well, it's code. Code has bugs. What's makes it funny is that the investment terms page explaining the contract was extremely clear that the contract code itself were the only terms that mattered, not any "intent". Everyone who invested agreed to the bug, even if they didn't know about it.
What made the fork controversial was that it wasn't a bug in Ethereum itself (Bitcoin also had a fork due to a code bug and that was wholly uncontroversial), but rather a bug in a single contract.
Bugs in contracts will always happen, since, well, it's code. Code has bugs. What's makes it funny is that the investment terms page explaining the contract was extremely clear that the contract code itself were the only terms that mattered, not any "intent". Everyone who invested agreed to the bug, even if they didn't know about it.