> Your whole argument is predicated on the idea that what happened with the DAO was "theft". So did the Ethereum Devs, who owned a bulk of coin from the initia

> Your whole argument is predicated on the idea that what happened with the DAO was "theft". So did the Ethereum Devs, who owned a bulk of coin from the initial auction. And they just so happened to also control development of the protocol AND the client programs. This was the message they "asked" users... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Ethereum-Wallet_and_Mist_Beta_with_Hard_Fork_choice_0.8.1.png/1113px-Ethereum-Wallet_and_Mist_Beta_with_Hard_Fork_choice_0.8.1.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Et... "....IN WHICH FUNDS RELATED TO THE EXPLOIT ARE RESTORED...." Consensus is nice, especially when you can manufacture it. Noam Chomsky talks about this in great detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU Chomsky: "The first place to look is, who's in a position to make the decisions that determines the way a society functions."