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by kalleboo 3263 days ago
There was an Ethereum contract called The DAO which had a bug in it that got taken advantage of. They decided to hard fork all of Ethereum to retrieve the appropriated money.

It's seen as some as an admission that the Ethereum ethos of "the code is the contract" is unrealistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)