Re:Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI ...
by pants2 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:46PM
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That was over 10 years ago now, when the chain was less than a year old. Things have changed. Can we drop it already?
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Re:Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI ...
by kayamon on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:27PM
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We won't drop it. Ethereum was built on insecure management from day one. Satoshi proved that honest mining nodes follow the longest proof-of-work chain. Ethereum chose to start their own management and now continue to suffer the consequences.
Re:Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI ...
by pants2 on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:05AM
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What "consequences" are you referring to? Anything that has happened in the last 10 years?
Re:Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI ...
by kinakomochidayo on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:26AM
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Satoshi literally rolled back the chain in 2010 after the value overflow bug. Hilarious.
Ethereum only did a surgical state change on a smart contract. It wasn’t a rollback like Satoshi.
Re:Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI ...
by tzs on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:37PM
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I haven't followed this subject. What's changed?
Re:Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI ...
by pants2 on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:07AM
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Basically everything. DeFi wasn't even really a thing back then - Ethereum had zero TVL when the rollback happened. Smart contracts were a brand new concept. Competing SC chains like Solana weren't even in the idea stage yet. It also had only one client. Now there is $50B+ in TVL and nine clients and a rollback is just not going to happen.
It's ancient history. It's like still criticizing Apple for how they handled Copland OS.