For all the crap Ethereum is getting right now, let me just say: it’s amazing that such a new and powerful platform even works at all. The cryptocurrency community has done some amazing things.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
It's also going to do awful things, and with no way to stop or undo when that happens.
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Replying to @RichFelker @matthew_d_green
Because stopping relies on consensus to do something like a hard fork that goes contrary to billions in distributed financial self-interest.
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Replying to @RichFelker @matthew_d_green
It's like how capitalism makes everyone stakeholders in a bunch of awful shit...
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Replying to @RichFelker @matthew_d_green
But without magical safeguards, shit like Etherium is going to make us all stakeholders in a literal fucking skynet.
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