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by dmitriid 1542 days ago
Especially things like

> once a block gets finalized, it cannot be reverted without the attacker having to lose millions of ETH to being slashed

when most recent hacks are begging for reversibility.

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Ironically, the hacker gains “millions of ETH” instead. The hack is enshrined in the blockchain forever, and if CEXs blocklist the hacker - the ETH sits dormant and wasted forever - and nobody can fix this without hard-forking. True innovation!