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by psychiatrist24 1921 days ago
How would they be on a fork, if the "original" dies because of the difficulty bomb? Since the fork that wasn't bombed would survive, it would be considered the original, wouldn't it?

How is it defined? Like somebody releases a new version with the bomb removed. Most miners adapt it. Why is it then a fork? Because the bomb is a major feature? Otherwise, wouldn't ever software upgrade be considered a fork?
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Zetaphor 1921 days ago
If I understood the conversation from the last dev call correctly, they're talking about combining EIP-1559 and the difficulty bomb fix into the same fork specifically to avoid this
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lupire 1921 days ago
"original" and "fork" have no meaning inside the ETH universe. These terms are used in the outside social milieu.
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