Quite amazing what I've been seeing. Comes down to the pure hatred of Etherium to the point of trying to use it against itself, and people stupid enough to give away their money to a thief and the like, utterly amazing.
It's like inviting a thief into your home and watching him pick out whatever they want and waving goodby with a smile on your face.
Vitalik has as nicely as he possibly can said goodby to all that to move on with Ethereum.
It has become quite apparent that Ethereum will move on with the continued development and all the backing of what is being developed on it and all else will be left behind in what they have so wanted.
It's like inviting a thief into your home and watching him pick out whatever they want and waving goodby with a smile on your face.
Vitalik has as nicely as he possibly can said goodby to all that to move on with Ethereum.
It has become quite apparent that Ethereum will move on with the continued development and all the backing of what is being developed on it and all else will be left behind in what they have so wanted.
This IS amazing and its the first time I have seen something like this with any coin. Other coins that have forked killed the old fork. IMO, they should never have allowed this to happen. Allowing forks to split the currency devalues the currency and hurts investors. The community voted for the hard fork and that should be the only ETH left in existence. I think in the long run it still will be but the infighting that is taking place now is embarrassing to the Etherium community - and I think that is the intent of some people.
For me personally, I could care less. I take my profits where I can. But the biggest problem in this entire alt-coin world is the lack of regulation and authority. From the pumping and dumping to the disinformation and scams, it all makes this entire environment untrustworthy. This stuff would result in criminal charges if it existed in a regulated investment system. In this system , people are actually rooting for the thieves, although I think that is limited to thieves stealing from someone else and not them.
There is no feasible way to completely kill a fork. A single CPU miner can keep it going at almost no cost for any length of time. Well, the difficulty drop would need to be handled with some rentals but still - a single dissenter is all that it takes. The reason that most other forks are smooth is that there is an actual consensus and most of the time forks deal with technical issues, not with rewriting history.
And if you want regulation and authority - blockchain ain't it.
I agree.. how many coins havent you had the message "MANDATORY UPDATE - HARDFORK"..
This one invited the old chain to live on by giving each user an option.
Is this by accident?
I think not.
This one invited the old chain to live on by giving each user an option.
Is this by accident?
I think not.
Irrelevant. Simply using a pre-fork client is the same as choosing "no" on that dialog box. Again, there is no feasible way to kill a fork if it has supporters.
I'm truly amazed how many Etherists (on both sides I must say) have no clue how blockchains work. I'm no expert by any means but at least I try to understand the basics of what I put my money into.
