man, what a clusterfuck this all is.
was this type of scenario foreseen? i assume at least a few people must've guessed the original chain might stay alive for a while longer at least.
considering how massive eth volumes were, and now etc, if i was running an exchange there's no way i could afford to compensate people for stuff that's vaporised.
It was foreseen, particularly by vocal opponents in the BTC community. It was also foreseen by ETH devs, who discussed the possibility of replay attacks well before the fork.
Stupidly enough, they could have included an easy fix with their hard fork, slightly changing TX IDs to prevent the exploit. Unfortunately, they were too brazen in assuming that the original blockchain would die and didn't even bother. They then had the audacity to suggest that the ETC community has the responsibility to hard fork now. LOL!
Idiots can't secure their own fork; they put all the blame for ETC surviving on "BTC maximalists who want ETH to die"; and they put the burden on ETC to hard fork (why would ETC hard fork? Fix your own fork, ETHtards).
And according to Charlie Lee, ETH Foundation actively told exchanges to ignore ETC, ignore the prospect of replay attacks entirely, and just plan on the fork succeeding. Idiots!
And Coinbase and BTC-E are idiots for listening to them. The exchanges serve their customers -- what the fuck are they doing trusting these idiot developers on a contentious hard fork?
Just split the ether per chain post-fork! People were talking about how to avoid replay attacks before and immediately after the fork. That exchanges did not protect themselves is just pathetic.
And that some are turning around and stealing from their customers to cover their own lack of foresight? So sad, this. I really had a lot of respect for BTC-E. They were my favorite exchange. Coinbase was always scum -- would never use them. BTC-E though.... this sucks.
