Wait, what? This isn't over yet? And there is still the possibility of yet another fork? The article wasn't clear to me if both chains would require an eventual fork. just a definite on ETH.


Mind is blown. Even if Godzilla becomes involved with this at some point, I'm jaded.

But what is this thing with a "replay attack" ?  To me that's no attack at all.  If you sign a transaction that was on the old chain, then of course that signature is as valid on the new chain A as on the new chain B.  Remember that what was protecting your old UTXO on the old chain was the fact that you didn't gave out a valid signature and that you were the only one being able to produce one.  So once your signature is out, it is of course out for both chains.

The trick is to only sign transactions that include UTXO that are only valid on one chain.  For that, you need to obtain 1) DAO hacker coins or 2) DAO return address coins or 3) freshly mined coins on one of the chains.  You don't need much of it: a bit of dust of one of these is enough to make a transaction that will be considered invalid on the other chain, so that you can REDO a signature, but this time on the second chain.

But for sure it is not an "attack".  I don't know why people call it that way.  If you have given out the signature in public, of course people will use it.

ETC is going to have to eventually fork also if it is going to avoid the difficulty bomb.

I call this BS. ETH chain has no replay problem. Only if you want to play ETH plus ETC (= prefork ETH chain) you'll have to take care.

If you had ETH in a wallet before the fork and took a copy, used one on the fork
and the other on the non-fork you would get the same amount of ETC keeping your
ETH, yes/no?

Big guts to buy eth now, with all those issues with ETC etc.

Also if your the one who sold like 30k plus then you got less then you should for every coin, and i thank you for more cheap coins.

Next time if you wanna sell a lot try pm me i might buy for a better price then you will get from selling into the market.

Good news, Its a bit slower than i was hoping but id rather it takes a little longer and everything is all good. No point in rushing it and ending up with everything going tits up.

keep up the good work.

Wow!  Just read the news!  This is an unexpected development.  It looks like Vitalik has his hands full again and this time the problem was caused by himself and Classic Ethereum looks like it will be staying for a while.  But who is developing/maintaining it?  Are there a group if  volunteers of core developers to bring the project forward?  

Nope, ETH is the clone of ETC