On July 20, the Ethereum network completed its first successful hard fork, in an attempt to recover drained ether from the DAO. 10 days later, the hard fork has led to more controversy than the initial DAO fiasco.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and his supporters essentially executed the hard fork as solution to a short term issue presented by the DAO, arguably the largest platform built on the Ethereum network to date.
The issue was, investors lost nearly 90 million ether from the DAO attack, due to the vulnerabilities and bugs of the DAO platform. Buterin and the rest of the foundation reached a “consensus” to alter the entire network for benefit of some investors of the DAO, disregarding the viewpoint of the rest of the Ethereum community.
The Ethereum hard fork was a success and investors’ funds were restored. However, the Ethereum foundation received heavy criticism from the network, for overlooking the fundamental purpose of a hard fork and the network’s principles.
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