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Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by RedShift1 on Sunday January 30, 2022 @05:17AM (#30135586)
The only way to roll back transactions is to create a fork of the blockchain. A very politically loaded topic to say the least.
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Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? by ddtaylor on Sunday January 30, 2022 @05:25AM (#30135612)
Which is exactly what ETH already did years ago with the Dao. There was no technical reason for the rollback/fork. It was just that too many people would lose money because of a bug in a contract. A contract that explicitly said "this is the code" regardless of bugs. So yeah, lol.
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