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Almost as much embarrassing as the Bitcoin revert IMHO – https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident
by Diti 7y ago
Almost as much embarrassing as the Bitcoin revert IMHO – https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident
- rlt 7y agoEh, they were very different. From a technical perspective I'm not sure which bug is worse (FWIW the Bitcoin one happened 1 year after it launched and 5 years before Ethereum launched), but the justification for forking Ethereum was weaker and more controversial. Ethereum was forked to revert the loss of funds (about 3% the current supply of ETH I think) of users of a specific (but popular) buggy contract. Ethereum itself would have survived without the fork. The Bitcoin bug enabled an attacker to create ~184 billion Bitcoin, resulting in something like 50,000% inflation. Not reverting that would absolutely have killed Bitcoin.
- shazow 7y ago> FWIW the Bitcoin one happened 1 year after it launched and 5 years before Ethereum launched FWIW the Ethereum one also happened 1 year after it launched.
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