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If Code is law then hard fork is also law. Otherwise those Ethereum classic people are saying that code is law but only the DSL of Solidity. Outside updatable Ethereum engine code is not law.


> If Code is law then hard fork is also law

Not at all. All crypto currency only has value because other people collectively choose to "believe" a certain chain. Usually there is global consensus of which chain is the "true" chain, but there have been many times in the past that one group has decided to follow a different fork for whatever reason. I mean, Bitcoin has Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold. The value that gets allocated to a particular fork just depends on the number of other people that choose to follow that chain.


You were just giving me arbitrary facts after saying “no”. I get this feeling you don’t understand what I’m talking about. The biggest code is lowercase was after the Dao fork when Ethereum hard forked. The argument given by Therion classic people was that since code is law it’s unethical and incorrect to hard for the funds away from the hacker, because he now legitimately owns the stolen funds.




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