A great reminder of such happening. I actually have already read and known about this piece of history in Bitcoin and its quite fascinating how exploits are done on these complicated code with determination. I also admire and impressed that a decentralized network has proven that with its system, the power is upon the people and not some central organization, and the fate is totally dependent to the users of the platform, thus the soft fork won over the exploited version of the blockchain.
these days people are now reliant on core releasing an update
as said in previous post in 2010 a couple dozen people (who were predominently coders) could self patch thier own code. these days of a couple hundred thousand people that could be affected in a similar 19hour event. (who are not predominantly coders) have to rely on core to give them a patch
after all. imagine an bug was found now. it was exploited and although core devs taking hours to figure out the cause and make a patch. a exploiter already planned the evnt and had code that also does other nasty stuff, just announces he has a version that can patch the first bug (but trojans new bugs) .. people have to review his codebase. and learn to trust it. or wait and pray that core hurries up.
people have already prefered to wait for core and ignore any non core devs from offering an unreviewed client that is advertised as fixing bitcoin issues
bitcoin 2019 is not the same as bitcoin 2010. so dont think the events of 2010 prove what 2019 is in regards to decentralisation and community power