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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by mort96 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:51AM (#32849050)
Can nodes in Etherium? Or is there a central governing body there which has the power to revert legitimate transactions, just like in traditional systems?

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-ethereum-reversed-a-50-...

Oh.

But hey, at least it's an unregulated, informal, ad-hoc process in Etherium with no justice system or oversight to enforce the rights of the little guy.

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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by ikt on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:19AM (#32850083)
You do know you just compared ethereum when it was in its bootstrapping phase to now when it has millions of users and projects right?

and you do know a group of people tried to have the same thing done again a few years ago and it failed right?

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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by ETH_start on Thursday September 15, 2022 @09:05AM (#32851284)
The DAO hard fork was an exceptional event that occurred in 2015, under very unique circumstances inherent to the world's first smart contract platform experiencing the world's first major smart contract hack, and has not been repeated since.

Ethereum at this point - with seven years of autonomous operation and no repeats of DAO-like hard forks - has proven to be an immutable and credibly neutral settlement layer.

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