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by rawtxapp 1860 days ago
If the community forks to void an attacker's coins, that creates a very bad precedent. It already happened with the dao hack (which was pretty bad to begin with), but if it keeps happening, why would you trust that blockchain.
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PoS doesn't fork the chain, you just lose your stake if you stake malicious blocks: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms...