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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by tom_mellior on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:59PM (#26442000)
> it sounds less a 51% attack and more like miners voting against something that isn't in their interest

We also used to call this situation a potential "fork" (as in, the thing with two prongs) before the word "fork" was somehow redefined to mean "protocol update everyone agrees on, with a linear history without any prongs".

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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by crazypython on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:04PM (#26442036)
Ethereum developers are hard forking Ethereum, but 51% of the hashpower disagrees and doesn't want to go with the hard fork.
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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by viraptor on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:35PM (#26442285)
It's still a fork in both cases. One path is taken by almost noone, but it's still an open possibility to keep it alive.
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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by JAM1971 on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:36PM (#26443693)
Yup. See: ETH Classic.
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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by hanniabu on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:04PM (#26442037)
Yup, it's a combination of new people not understanding it and media slander dirtying the word that has caused it to be avoided because it's gained a bad connotation.
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