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Not quite. The ecosystem was much smaller back then. Nowadays, I'm not sure one company would be able to make a case for forking the currency. Besides, you can
by sillysaurus3 8y ago
Not quite. The ecosystem was much smaller back then. Nowadays, I'm not sure one company would be able to make a case for forking the currency.
Besides, you can still buy ETH classic, if you disagree with the decision. It's just not worth much.
- fapjacks 8y agoI am 100% sure that if I went and "the code is the contract"ed whatever ends up being DAO2.0 out of 5% of all existing ETH, that Vitalik would come save it "just this once" one more time... I absolutely do not believe for one second that there wouldn't be another fork. And I say this as someone with a substantial interest in the currency.
- sillysaurus3 8y agoWell, the point is, Vitalik can't do that. The community would have to agree with him. If the situation were sufficiently dire, then presumably it would be easy to get community support. But the opposite is true too.
- Kiro 8y agoNope, won't happen again. Look at EIP-999. It's backed by Vitalik but is still dead.
- CryptoPunk 8y agoEIP-999 isn't backed by Vitalik but it was backed by major figures in Ethereum, including at least one co-founder. And yes it's dead.
- lucasvo 8y agoEthereum EIP-999 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16843991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16843991 and https://github.com/5chdn/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-999.md https://github.com/5chdn/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-999.md) is exactly that, a discussion of patching Ethereum to unlock a a few hundred million dollars that are inaccessible due to a software bug.
- TTPrograms 8y agoIt's almost definitely not going to happen.