Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack

Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by psychiatrist24 on Saturday March 13, 2021 @11:08AM (#26447456)

How would they be on a fork, if the "original" dies because of the difficulty bomb? Since the fork that wasn't bombed would survive, it would be considered the original, wouldn't it?

How is it defined? Like somebody releases a new version with the bomb removed. Most miners adapt it. Why is it then a fork? Because the bomb is a major feature? Otherwise, wouldn't ever software upgrade be considered a fork?

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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by Zetaphor on Saturday March 13, 2021 @11:50AM (#26447784)

If I understood the conversation from the last dev call correctly, they're talking about combining EIP-1559 and the difficulty bomb fix into the same fork specifically to avoid this

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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by lupire on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:28PM (#26448689)

"original" and "fork" have no meaning inside the ETH universe. These terms are used in the outside social milieu.

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