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Re:DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users by canjobear on Friday October 01, 2021 @11:10AM (#28719475)
> it would have endangered the decentralization

So the solution to save "decentralization" was for a centralized cabal to literally rewrite history?

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Re:DeFi bug accidentally gives $90M to users by bhaak on Friday October 01, 2021 @02:26PM (#28721878)
Technically, there was no rewriting of history. Just a single (but very large) transaction was added to the consensus rules that (IIRC) replaced the TheDAO smart contract code.

Given that this incident resulted in the Ethereum/Ethereum Classic split, the "centralized cabal" was not very effective. The community voted with their feet and many went to Ethereum Classic.

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