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by matthewbauer 3627 days ago
> I think that many people miss the most important thing here: it is not important if a currency hard-forks or not - what is important is that it can.

Well, it's setting a precedent that will make the case easier in the future. Bitcoin's hard forks have all seemed to be good faith attempts to fix issues in the protocol. I don't think anyway on the Ethereum team is arguing this is anything other than an extremely arbitrary fork. The fact that 51% of stakeholders agreed to set this precedent should scare anyone from owning Ethereum in the future.