Ethereum is *really* showing its "maturity" by having 80% of its mining nodes taken down by a bit of code inserted into their network.
I guess when you're "turing complete" you have to anticipate that people will run any legal instruction that they can -- and the network will blindly execute it like the good little computer it is. The best part was, since a lot of the devs were in China behind the great firewall, they had to postpone the big ETH hype-conference to save the very thing they were hyping.
The irony is so thick and delicious, I may need an extra espresso with this dessert.
Topic: [2016-09-26] Bitcoin and Ethereum Show Signs of Maturity (Read 324 times)
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