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That was over 10 years ago now, when the chain was less than a year old. Things have changed. Can we drop it already?

I haven't followed this subject. What's changed?

Basically everything. DeFi wasn't even really a thing back then - Ethereum had zero TVL when the rollback happened. Smart contracts were a brand new concept. Competing SC chains like Solana weren't even in the idea stage yet. It also had only one client. Now there is $50B+ in TVL and nine clients and a rollback is just not going to happen.

It's ancient history. It's like still criticizing Apple for how they handled Copland OS.

We won't drop it. Ethereum was built on insecure management from day one. Satoshi proved that honest mining nodes follow the longest proof-of-work chain. Ethereum chose to start their own management and now continue to suffer the consequences.

What "consequences" are you referring to? Anything that has happened in the last 10 years?

Satoshi literally rolled back the chain in 2010 after the value overflow bug. Hilarious.

Ethereum only did a surgical state change on a smart contract. It wasn’t a rollback like Satoshi.

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