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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by ur-whale on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:20AM (#32849666)
>ly not sure how such a beast can't be filled with bugs

The one nice thing about crypto is that if there are bugs, the incentive to exploit them is large, they will get found quickly.

How the problem is dealt with after the fact (e.g. ETH Classic hard fork) i.e. the governance model is the real interesting part.

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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by seydor on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:47AM (#32849839)
The incentive is to discover them but exploit them after the switch to the new chain
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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by ur-whale on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:23AM (#32850110)
> The incentive is to discover them but exploit them after the switch to the new chain

You're always at the mercy of a hard fork that "fixes" the bug after the exploit.

This is what the Ethereum classic fork was about.

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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by seydor on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:37AM (#32850230)
What if you get half the validators to conspire to benefit from the scam
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