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Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed... by 2030ai on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:38PM (#42927563)
Eth famously forked and reversed txns due to someone getting scammed.
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Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed... by markasoftware on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:51PM (#42927661)
the fact that eth classic was created from this incident and still exists does inspire some confidence that ethereum's governance is somewhat decentralized also, to be fair.

And IIRC it wasn't a "scam", it was a bug in a smart contract.

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Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed... by 2030ai on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:43AM (#42928499)
Yes a smart contract bug. Hacked might be a better word. Or outsmarted?
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Re:El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender after failed... by 127 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:38AM (#42929317)
ETH forked because the contract was poorly written and they didn't want to honor the contract because their buddies would have lost a lot of money and the project would have gotten an egg to their face.
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