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Re:Bitcoin breaks above $20k by gruez on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:41PM (#25452177)
>Ethereum was only about a year old at the time. When Bitcoin a year-and-a-half old, it had a bug that required a five-hour chain rollback.

>Bitcoin people will object and say that was a bug with the blockchain itself. However, sample code on ethereum.org had vulnerabilities similar to TheDAO's bug, so arguably it was a platform issue on Ethereum as well.

I think the main difference here was that bitcoin never had a "code is law" belief, whereas ethereum did.

Re:Bitcoin breaks above $20k by DennisP on Thursday December 17, 2020 @03:43AM (#25453792)
Propose another large Bitcoin rollback and see how the community reacts. The idea that the longest chain always wins has been a core value in Bitcoin since its inception; the manual rollback was a complete violation of that.

It was also necessary for success, but the Bitcoin community has little grounds for moral superiority here.

Re:Bitcoin breaks above $20k by ric2b on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:43PM (#25481975)
I'm pretty sure that rollbacks to fix bugs in the chain itself would still be ok today.