Why not fix the code, create DAO2.0, and move on? BTC has hard forked before, it is a learning experience. Why do people say ETH is dead? ETH was not even hacked.
BTC was hacked before and survived!!
Even when you 'fix' the code and create DAO 2.0 it is not enough. People will remember this fail forever. There is something which can't be fixed with rewritten code - people's trust.
And how exactly BTC was 'hacked'? I don't recall anything like that in the past. And certainly no coins were stolen during that 'attack'.
A lot of people keep bringing up that bitcoin was hacked but its irrelevant . Bitcoin had an issue in 2010 where someone managed to create so many billions of bitcoins but this was back when bitcoin was in its infancy with a market cap of only 200k, The dao and ethereums market cap is much larger and investers face a massive loss which was not the case with bitcoin. Also developers were aware of this recent exploit with the dao yet never fixed it.