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After the launch of $ETH
, the concept of smart contracts began to attract increasing interest.
If you can program money and rules directly onto the blockchain, you can attempt to build organizations, financial applications, and systems that operate without a central authority.
In 2016, one of the most ambitious attempts was The DAO.
The DAO attracted a massive amount of Ether for that time.
Everything seemed to be going according to plan.
Until someone discovered a vulnerability in the code.
And that was when theory met reality.
An attacker exploited the vulnerability and managed to redirect a significant amount of funds.
The Ethereum community found itself facing a very unpleasant dilemma:
What do you do when a smart contract does exactly what its code allows, yet the outcome is something people never intended?
"Code is law"... until things get complicated.
One of the fundamental ideas behind blockchain technology is that rules are defined by code.
But now, there was a problem.
If we strictly adhere to the code, the stolen funds remain where they are.
If we modify the blockchain to recover the funds, we are altering its history.
The community debated the issue intensely.
Ultimately, the decision was made to execute a hard fork.
The blockchain split into two versions.
One continued under the name Ethereum.
The other became Ethereum Classic.
It was a pivotal moment for the crypto industry, as it demonstrated that behind the seemingly mathematical and impersonal technology, there are still people who must make decisions. And people, as we know, have a knack for not always agreeing.
From smart contracts to an entire industry
After 2016, Ethereum continued to develop.
An increasing number of decentralized applications, tokens, and projects built directly on the Ethereum infrastructure began to emerge.
The ICO boom followed in 2017.
Ethereum had already become much more than just a cryptocurrency.
It was a platform.
Developers could create tokens and applications without having to build their own blockchain from scratch.
This contributed enormously to the expansion of the ecosystem.
But success brought a problem with it.
The more people used Ethereum, the more congested the network became.
And when a decentralized network becomes heavily congested, users quickly discover one thing:
gas fees.
Sometimes, the transaction cost more than the item you were trying to buy.
But Ethereum hadn't said its last word yet.
Because the next major issue was far more serious:
energy consumption and the Proof of Work mechanism.
And Ethereum was about to attempt one of the most difficult transitions in blockchain history.
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