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> After all, you can't take a smart contract out of ethereum You absolutely can. Ethereum has forked in the past to alter inconvenient data / network state. I
by tick_tock_tick 4y ago
> After all, you can't take a smart contract out of ethereum
You absolutely can. Ethereum has forked in the past to alter inconvenient data / network state.
I've not looked at there contract but contracts can kill themselves if setup for it. See the SUICIDE opcode.
- whatisweb3 4y agoEthereum has hard forked once with the DAO. It needs a significant divergent of opinion - like 10% of all miners splitting off into their own network, client tooling, platforms, and ecosystem. It is not something that can be done on a whim and can’t happen every time the US adds a new address to their sanctions list.
- sp332 4y agoTechnically, Ethereum has hard forked multiple times, for example to avoid "ice age" difficulty cliffs that were supposed to force the switch to proof-of-stake multiple times now. But the vast majority of miners, and importantly, the currency exchanges, have all been on the same side of those forks.
- viscanti 4y agoThe contention was that it can happen to remove/censor contracts or transactions, not that forks don't happen more broadly. It seems the point still stands that there was a single fork around the DAO and the odds of anything like that again are basically zero.
- 8note 4y agoThe benefit of crypto is that somebody will automate that forking, and they won't have to put work into it
- TarasBob 4y agoNo. Ethereum has never forked any inconvenient data or network state.
- idiotsecant 4y agoI am a huge fan of Ethereum but I think the DAO hack fork unquestionably falls into this category.
- TarasBob 4y agoEthereum was only a few months old at that point and you could say it was alpha software with training wheels.
- patrickthebold 4y agoNo true Scottish hard forks then.
- ncallaway 4y agoThat’s… a far cry from never. “It never happened! Except that one time when it was an alpha”
- ikiris 4y agoMovin those goalposts...
- idiotsecant 4y agoDon't you think the type of contracts that are likely to be sanctioned by world governments are exactly the type of contracts that will be unlikely to implement a suicide method?
- DennisP 4y agoIn theory you could fork it away, if you can talk everybody into it. What you can't do is prevent someone from launching a similar contract afterwards.