[wyager]

And yet, the Bitcoin community seems to stand behind their words and has yet to fold on their principles.

In effect, people actually trust Bitcoin to be a "source of truth", and that transactions won't go away just because a small oligopoly of developers decided they didn't like the way a perfectly legitimate transaction went down.

[splintercell]

"small oligopoly"?? Majority of Ether holders supported the fork.

[zdkl]

It's easy to get the feeling that the "default support" setting may have helped that, from a casual following of the ethereum scene

[wyager]

No, they just didn't care enough to make the effort to protest.