News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum. Parent comment

Re:Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum by rfd4sgmk8u on Thursday April 15, 2021 @01:11PM (#26823285)
I know. My point is that multiple clients make the network LESS resilient. Moments like this prove it, as the network lost 11% of nodes until it was fixed. Satoshi was correct, multiple implementations are prone to failure, not resilient.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum by DennisP on Thursday April 15, 2021 @03:10PM (#26824878)
And yet the network kept running.

Back in 2016, a denial-of-service attack took down the most popular node implementation. People quickly switched to the second-most popular implementation, and the network kept running without interruption until the popular client was fixed eight hours later.

[ Parent | on HN ]