The Future of Ether: Ethereum Miners to Decide on DAO Rescue Fix

The Future of Ether: Ethereum Miners to Decide on DAO Rescue Fix

Ethereum stakeholders are set to secure their future and prevent a repeat of the June 17 attack as they are bound to decide on a DAO rescue fix. On Tuesday June 21, Ethereum announced the release of DAO Rescue HotFix 1.2.8, with the critical Ethereum soft-fork update aimed to rescue the stolen DAO funds. The proposed solution of this release is to freeze all transactions trying to move any funds from The DAO or the child DAOs. However, the rescue fix is still for the miners to decide on. Miners have limited power. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Christopher Franko, President of Borderless....


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