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Board Marketplace (Altcoins)
Re: bter hacked and lost 50m nxt
by
Nautica
on 15/08/2014, 19:56:02 UTC
This is a classic example of a flaw that needs to be addressed.
This is a classic example of an unsolvable problem.

Then what you are asking for is impossible. At some point, coders make choices on what they implement that has an impact on the protocol and the network. Furthermore, it is practically impossible to pretend that you can prevent people from arbitrarily choosing to point their clients to another blockchain. Forks will happen because of bugs, developer intervention, and even because a user has decided to make his own personal fork for whatever reason. There's always a game going on about how many people are going to join a given fork.

The only truely "decentralised" system is the universe. You can not roll back anything, time passes and the laws of physics take care of executing themselves with no possible changes on the "blockchain". No coin that is decentralised in that sense can exist. Cryptocoins are simulations of a universe, but humans are one level on top of it, and the protocol can not reach out and prevent somebody from fiddling with the controls. It would be like sort of Skynet world playing God with its own creators.

You will have to live with blockchains people can fork or roll back. What the blockchain brought to the table is that you could not modify it to your liking, but there is no way to prevent people from what is basically choosing to go use another alt-coin. Unless you want to try to dictatorially force people to use one and only given blockchain, you'll have to accept this and stop yelling at what is essentially a cloud.