Emin Gün Sirer: hard-fork - a rite of passage for Ethereum

Teacher of computer science at Cornell University Emin Gün Sirer, which is one of the first identified deficiencies The DAO, identifying weaknesses in its code, I am sure that the hard fork Ethereum - a sign of the platform of maturity and have a number of reasons why Ethereum will develop further.

As organizer of the educational hub Ethereum (ethereum bootcamp), organized jointly with the Ethereum Foundation and lichnos Vitalik Buterin, Kyung Sirerskazal believes that "chain of transformation" ( "chains change"), is not always a drawback of the platform, and, in this case, an adequate response to the opinion Ethereum majority community.

This is an indicator of how the community in an organized way in a position to take the necessary and important decision Ethereum we demonstrated this. I believe that hard-fork - a rite of passage for Ethereum,

• Said Emin.

An important lesson for any cryptocurrency

After weeks of planning and a coordinated effort on the part of miners, 20/07/2016 has been successfully promoted the hard-fork blokcheyna Ethereum that allowed to recover approximately $ 140 million held by investors The DAO.

According to Kyung Sirera, hard- fork is not only an indicator of growing Ethereum, but also serves as a lesson for all kriptovalyutnogo project and conservative members of the community (maximalist) called "long chain fetishists" ( "long-chain fetishism" ), which misinterpret the meaning of the value of any cryptocurrency.

The most important lesson, at least for me, and I hope to kriptosoobschestva as a whole is that the cost of any cryptocurrency ultimately determined by the confidence of society,

• Said Gün Sirer

Ethereum bootcamp

Thirty-eight people from around the world signed up to participate in the educational hub Ethereum (ethereum bootcamp), half of them from Cornell University, where he is a hub. Teachers are four developers Ethereum platforms including Buterin, as well as some staff at Cornell University. Participants are several companies interested in the implementation of their projects in the Ethereum platform.

It should also be noted that he Acne Buterin believes that hard fokrk not only has positive aspects

Next time we may not be such a possibility due to the fact that with the growth and development of ecosystems such action is much more difficult to perform. At the moment, investors The DAO was lucky because It was a necessary lead time to transform blokcheyna,

• Says Vitaly, in his letter CoinDesk

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