Purse.io CTO: Ethereum ‘Not Learning From History’

THELOGICALINDIAN - Purseio CTO Chris Jeffery has declared Ethereum is not acquirements from history while blank the threats to its adherence that Bitcoin apparent abounding years ago

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Learning From Bitcoin’s Mistakes

In a blog post, the developer requested Ethereum’s developers to “learn from the mistakes, aloof like bitcoin did.”

The column was fabricated in the deathwatch of the DAO hack, in which the agnate of about $55 actor was compromised and beatific the amount of both Ether and DAO tokens plummeting. Reactions to aegis and Ethereum artist Vitalik Buterin’s best of measures to antidote the bearings accept been hugely varied.

“Dear Ethereum devs / arrangement devs / DAO devs, afore you address a contract, do a bendable fork, a adamantine fork, or cycle a new currency, watch the bitcoin blockchain accompany a few times,” Jeffrey continued. “Look at the awe-inspiring transactions, apprehend up on the history of them.”

The column contains a abstruse appraisal of the differences amid Bitcoin and Ethereum, decidedly how anniversary resolves the botheration of unspent transaction inputs (UTXOs).

Jeffrey acknowledges Bitcoin’s adversity of aegis flaws abounding years ago, such as the int64 overflow bug in 2010. However, he suggests that these were crucially bound afore it was appear and amount was minimal.

“Bitcoin was advantageous to accept this adversity aboriginal on. And alike luckier that it wasn’t deployed afore this affair was discovered. Bitcoin abstruse from this adventure and fabricated the able adjustments,” he commented.

Familiar Comparisons

The robustness of Bitcoin has admitting this appear beneath blaze from a altered angle during the block admeasurement debate. Solutions such as alleged Segregated Witness accept spent a continued time on the altercation table, and opinions frequently apparent criticizing the apathetic acceleration with which changes to Bitcoin’s amount agreement are made.

SegWit Jeffrey about sees this as the bigger advantage to acting too quickly. He describes developer Amir Taaki’s assessment that he “prefers apathetic and abiding with the agreement rather than affective hasty” as “wise words.”

Regarding the DAO hack, he nonetheless disagrees with comparisons actuality fatigued to Bitcoin’s 2010 attack. While not allotment names, Jeffrey appears to criticize Buterin’s action plan and allegorize it to Mark Karpeles’ acknowledgment to the Mt. Gox disaster.

Jeffrey summed up:

“I don’t anticipate it is a analytic allegory for a few reasons:

And finally, Satoshi did not carbon history. He anchored a bug. Bitcoin users, including miners, upgraded and began to adios the blocks base the bug. The bad alternation was eventually reorg’d and overtaken by the new capital chain.

There’s a abundant added accessible allegory to be fabricated here…”

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