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krupan

Ethereum is essentially centrally controlled and Bitcoin is absolutely not.

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In what way is Ethereum centrally controlled that Bitcoin isn‘t?

Vitalik says, "hey, let's do this" and everyone does it. Even when it's crazy things like rolling back transactions.

Satoshi doesn't even say anything and hasn't for a very long time.

So you don't believe in the existence of Ethereum Classic?

Does it still exist, with people actually using it? Is that what you were referring to originally?

You said people do what Vitalik says. Ethereum Classic is the prime counter argument that this is not true. It almost flipped Ethereum, split the community, and completely wreaked the price.

That's not supposed to happen if everybody follows the supreme leader.

Yes, that happened, but in the long run it failed and Vitalik still reigns supreme over the original Ethereum, despite him breaking one of the central promises of Ethereum in that scenario (the promise that "code is law").

Ethereum is better than the other complete scam coins, it's not a total scam. But it's not really permissionless and decentralized like Bitcoin.

No. This is absolutely a zombie chain.

Ethereum is decentralized and Vitalik has no direct authority over the protocol

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