A terse description of the theDAO hardfork

Asked Sep 06 '16 at 14:57

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As I understand it, at block 1920000 the blockchain was forked and there are now two blockchain strands; ETH (hard-forked) or ETC (non-hard-forked) blockchain. This is known as "the DAO hardfork".

Please, in terse language;

describe what was was done
compare the size/other useful metrics of the two blockchains (as of Sept 2016)
state the basic configuration changes the average user must make to switch between the two chains

Note, I'm not interested (in this question) in why this was done, just a consise explanation of what has been done what the current status is.

I have also seen this related question and answer:

Give a summary of the fork state changes in block 1920000

edited Apr 13 '17 at 13:01

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asked Sep 06 '16 at 14:57

Lee

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This answers in part; https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/07/20/hard-fork-completed/ – Lee Sep 06 '16 at 17:21
You cannot fork existing blockchains to "make another one out of it" To understand read SZABO 1998, especially paragraph 8 – Sep 06 '16 at 16:10
thanks, you mean this? http://szabo.best.vwh.net/msc.html – Lee Sep 06 '16 at 16:32
Please can you quote the chapter in the answer and add a clear ling to the paper ? – Nicolas Massart Sep 06 '16 at 16:45
@NicolasMassart Alas, user4206 seems to have unregistered. – Lee Sep 06 '16 at 16:47
@atomh33ls it was à fast one... – Nicolas Massart Sep 06 '16 at 16:49
I think user4206 might be suggesting Nick Szabo's Bit gold paper(?) of 1998. I can find some references but cannot find the source... fascinating. – Lee Sep 06 '16 at 17:03

A terse description of the theDAO hardfork

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