Op Ed: Why Ethereum’s Hard Fork Will Cause Problems in the Coming Year

Op Ed: Why Ethereum’s Hard Fork Will Cause Problems in the Coming Year

After the embarrassing failure of the DAO in 2016, the Ethereum Foundation moved quickly to address the problem by implementing a hard fork. On July 20, 2016, the new code went into effect, reversing transactions that allowed a hacker to bleed $50 million out of the $150 million venture fund in the wee hours of June 17. That DAO hard fork was not....


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