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Comment by pavlov | Hacker News Reader

ETC isn't the coin that was created to fix a perceived theft — ETH is.

In a strict technical view, that's correct. ETH is the continuation of the original coin, however, which most of the community (including the most important members/developers) decided to support.

No, ETH is the token of the original chain which we agreed by social consensus to fork because of an attacker. A public blockchain is a network of people, and the vast majority of the community is in Ethereum. That's what legitimises it.

Another example is BTC vs BCH. BCH is the original bitcoin code, but BTC is the original Bitcoin community.

>Another example is BTC vs BCH. BCH is the original bitcoin code, but BTC is the original Bitcoin community.

I think that's a rather disingenuous if not patently misleading statement.

BCH is factually and unequivocally a fork of bitcoin code and blockchain.

At the time of the segwit implementation, BCH kept the old protocol version.

edit: I think you may have a point but I don't see it and you don't make it clear in your comment either. My point is clear and factual and doesn't need your approval.

ETC is the original blockchain data. Whether that means it’s the original coin depends on the definition of “coin”, I guess.

ETH and ETC both have the original blockchain data, but one corrected a criminal act by social consensus because we are normal people and we can discuss and reach agreements just like anybody else.

Was a police report ever made about the theft? What was the result of the police investigation?

I'm not sure if a report was made because it was possible to make reparations. I can ask around at Europol next time I'm there.

Sounds like the value of the stolen property was $0 if it can be recovered by simply saying "We'll just give our money back to ourselves". I imagine the police wouldn't be very interested in such a case.

Maybe the crime was hacking into a computer system? But the perpetrator was using the system's public interfaces exactly as intended. Is it criminal to call a method on a smart contract on a public distributed ledger?

There's no criminal act. The Ethereum community just wants to see themselves as victims instead of accepting that they were hoisted with their own Turing-complete petard.

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