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Doesn't Ethereum have its own problems right now?
by lavezzi 9y ago
Doesn't Ethereum have its own problems right now?
- olegkikin 9y agoNot ethereum, but one of the contracts written on top of it had a bug that some newbie triggered by mistake and locked something like $160M worth of moneys.
- wc- 9y agoEthereum's value, its reason for existing, is the deployment and operation of smart contracts. When one of the most popular semi-complex smart contracts fails not once but twice in a matter of months (losing hundreds of millions USD in the process), it is time to look not at the newbie or the contract programmer, but the platform itself.
- olegkikin 9y agoEthereum works fine as a currency too (~15 sec per block, quite nice). It also works fine with simple contracts, it's the humans who aren't good enough (yet) to write bug-free code. Bugs in software of various kinds cause billions of dollars worth of damage, deaths too. Yet I don't see people claiming it's the fault of C++.
- xwvvvvwx 9y agoYet I don't see people claiming it's the fault of C++ A major driving force behind the development of Rust is that exact claim.
- olegkikin 9y agoI doubt software written in Rust has no bugs.
- xwvvvvwx 9y agoI don't think anyone is claiming that, it does however seem quite likely that it will have less.
- deadmetheny 9y agoPlease don't summon the Rust Evangelism Strike Force
- jacquesm 9y ago> I don't see people claiming it's the fault of C++. You must be new here.
- celticninja 9y agoAt the moment ethereum is its wallet software, if you cant write safe smart contracts then ethereum has no USP.
- ringaroundthetx 9y agoSomeone masqueraded a third party software bug as a protocol problem and you fell for it?