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So salty! And yet...How's ETH Classic doing? It was the right move at the time to fork. And pretty obviously would be the wrong move today.

For context, guluarte is referring to a moderately contentious hardfork done by the Ethereum developers and mining community to reverse TheDAO Hack in 2016 or so. The stakes were much larger then -- Ethereum was newer, not yet battle tested, and TheDAO had something like 10% of all ETH in it.

A fork was formed -- "ETH Classic" -- ticker ETC -- which did not reverse the DAO hack, and you can see from valuations that the public preferred the reversal.

I mean, the public comprised of the developers of Ethereum who had significant financial incentive to pretend the hack did not happen and to forever publicize their chain of history.

Code is law, up until it costs me.

it was actually up to the node operators to update their clients or not, which resulted in a contentious chain split. just like Bitcoin. decentralization worked as intended.

let’s not forget that Satoshi rolled back Bitcoin in 2010, whereas Ethereum was a surgical state change within a smart contract

What are you talking about in 2010?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident

Other transactions besides the one that created 184 billion BTC in that block was effectively “rolled back” on the working chain.

Thank you.

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