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Re:Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High by ur-whale on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:35AM (#25442948)
>I'm surprised the rise in ETH has been so muted comparatively. Any conjectures?

ETH has been known to fork to change the blockchain and eradicate some transactions the leadership didn't like (see the DAO story).

That may be a good thing in some people's book. In the Bitcoin world, this kind of thing is not very popular.

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Re:Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High by bouncycastle on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @11:00AM (#25444118)
Bitcoin also has eradicated some transactions that the leadership didn't like.

See the "Value overflow incident" of 2010, which was fixed with human intervention which ultimately rolled back 53 blocks through a soft-fork.

Anyways, both this and theDAO incidents are far away in the past now.

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