bug on Internet unleashes 175mm peoples private info including SSN: Lol internet!
Ethereum bug loses 500k eth: Shut it the fuck down it will never work.
People... get used to stuff.
Ethereum bug loses 500k eth: Shut it the fuck down it will never work.
People... get used to stuff.
Bug in a specific DB or HTTP server implementation exposes confidential data: Patch it or shut it down.
Bug in a specific service: Patch it or shut it down.
Ethereum is equivalent to those things. It is not equivalent to the Internet, that would be "blockchain technology" (quotes because it's such an ambiguous and ill-defined space right now).
Ethereum is buggy. Plain and simple. It is ill-designed, ill-scoped, and ill-managed (there never should have been a hard fork for the DAO fuckup).
This is very much like the leftpad issue with node and npm. It’s a flaw in the design of the system that permits this behavior. The contract (wallet software) is also clearly buggy. But the bug is a consequence of the ill-designed foundations.