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Ethereum 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 to
by whatisweb3 4y ago
Ethereum 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