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by aazaa 1706 days ago
Not even the same league of event. The value overflow incident was a flaw in the protocol implementation itself.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident

The DAO hack resulted from a poorly-written contract. Concerns about the quality of the contract were ignored by the team. The DAO itself wasn't even part of the Ethereum protocol, just an application running on it.

The DAO was like a Bitcoin transaction that spent all output value to miner fees, which has happened a lot. But at no time did that ever result in a rollback of history.

The response to the DAO was the Ethereum community slapping a giant asterisk on the motto "Code is Law." And the community is quite all right with that.