Lisk is Not a Fork of Ethereum, CEO Max Kordek States

Lisk is Not a Fork of Ethereum, CEO Max Kordek States

In the wake of the split into ETH and ETC - Ethereum Classic, following the recent hack of The DAO on the Ethereum platform which led to a hard fork to recover the stolen funds, Max Kordek, Lisk CEO, has come out to “clean up some misunderstandings, and explain briefly what Lisk is and what it isn’t.” Lisk is not a fork of Ethereum. In a blog post to the Lisk community, Kordek states categorically that Lisk is not a fork of Ethereum as the first of various misunderstandings, myths, and other wrong facts he wanted to dispel. Kordek writes: “The Lisk code base was forked from the Crypti....


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