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when the core devs lose money, the rules change.
by latenightcoding 10mo ago
when the core devs lose money, the rules change.
- DennisP 10mo agoIt's been nine years since the chain split, which happened within the first year. No irregular changes have been made since then. Two major hacks caused over a hundred million dollars in losses to Parity, a company founded by one of the core devs. That dev lobbied heavily for rescue, and the community refused. Bitcoin also made an irregular change, a year and a half into its history.
- csomar 10mo agoIt just shows that the decision making is very centralized and failure of ETC shows that the community is not interested in a true immutable ledger.
- mlrtime 10mo agoNo True Scotsman , Crypto edition. Listen, this is all code running on computers. At the end of the day everyone could choose to shut it down or replace it entirely and they criticism would still be: See not immutable! Eventually entropy makes everything mutable.