• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    18 hours ago

    I think it’s worth mentioning that this isn’t the first time eth suffered a big attack and it also wouldn’t be the first time they’d hard fork to roll back on the transactions. An attack in 2016 was rolled back in 2017, creating the eth classic, which ignored the changes.

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      7 hours ago

      Basically accurate except I wouldn’t classify a theft of Eth from a centralized crypto exchange as an attack on Ethereum, both because it doesn’t threaten Ethereum itself and because it wasn’t done using an exploit in Ethereum, this was a phishing attack afaik.