The truthabout the fork

I respect Ethereum’s Classic philosophical position, in fact I was among the first to be publically against the hard fork, and helped in all other ways to avoid it. Once I felt there was an overwhelming majority support for it (and after having helped build tools to try to measure these supports), and long debates to try to understand both arguments, I accepted — and still do, the majority decision as a good one. In fact, if the fork was merely a dogmatic schism I would be able to appreciate the beauty of the free market figuring out on two philosophical and political positions and no further words were needed. Except, that I care deeply about the truth.

There is a common narrative in some communities that support Ethereum Classic, one in which the Ethereum Foundation is painted as the corrupt bad guys who pushed the fork for financial reasons and the DAO attacker was a liberating hero. A narrative in which the DAO was sloppy code which was obvious to anyone watching that it would crash and burn. A story in which everyone involved was incompetent or unwilling to help.

Those narratives are not only false, but they are are provably, publicly false, yet they persist either because they are easy stories to repeat, or because some of those repeating it are ill-informed or ill-intentioned.