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by nrmitchi 1697 days ago
IIRC, back in the day, there was the original DAO. They released this very large contract, citing "the code is the law".

The code had a bug, and someone drained the $50M or so contract.

Since everyone lost a bunch of money, the majority agreed to fork Ethereum and roll back the hack, leading to "Ethereum" (with the roll back), and "Ethereum Classic" (without the rollback).