CoinDesk Research: Ethereum Hard Fork Had Little Impact
Despite being labeled as another Mt Gox, the demise of ethereum's first major project (the DAO) as well as subsequent, controversial attempts to save its investors, had little to no impact on the platform's use or perception, a new CoinDesk study has found. Conducted in October 2016, CoinDesk Research found the majority (63%) of industry entrepreneurs and enterprise executives surveyed reported no change in their use of ethereum following the hack or hard fork, with nearly half (48%) indicating it did not negatively impact their perception of the emerging technology. Perhaps most notably,....
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