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Yes, if the vast majority of the users in the network come to clear consensus on forking the protocol to enact a single change, they can do so. This is not a ba
by tatertots1234 4y ago
Yes, if the vast majority of the users in the network come to clear consensus on forking the protocol to enact a single change, they can do so. This is not a bad thing, it’s similar to how we fork our laws in the real world as we realize they contain pitfalls and loopholes.
This is very different from individual transaction disputes on a VISA-like protocol, and the DAO fork doesn’t suggest that transaction level disputes are in particularly high demand (in 7 years this happened one time on the network, and you call that demand? lol).
- majewsky 4y ago> it’s similar to how we fork our laws in the real world as we realize they contain pitfalls and loopholes I don't think politics work like you think they do. If the opposition could just "fork the law" when they don't like what the government is doing, there'd be millions of sovereign countries by now.
- tatertots1234 4y agoIf you don’t like part of Ethereum’s protocol, you can fork it today. It’s open source. It doesn’t mean anybody will follow your chain.