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A lot of people are disagreeing with you, possibly because of your overly-reverential treatment of Satoshi, but I think ultimately this idea makes more sense than some of the commenters here are giving it credit for.

Chrisco writes:

> The whole reason they have multiple clients is to make the network more resilient for moments like this.

But to me, it seems like this was a minor bug in which more contracts were being added to access lists than needed to be. Ultimately, I think that the network could have functioned normally if either this implementation or the Geth implementation was the only one on the network, without causing problems for anyone.

Other sibling comments make reference to the fact that Ethereum is much more complex than Bitcoin. But doesn't this just make it even more suitable for all development energy to be concentrated on a single client, since it's inherently harder to maintain?

Certainly there are benefits to having multiple clients, but I think there are drawbacks as well.

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:-) Yes. Folks threw rocks at Satoshi back in the day too, because they did not understand.