#BabyMarvin f9c7 Four Controversies in Ethereum's History

Nine years later, Ethereum seems to be facing community disputes once again, with both camps arguing fiercely. In reality, this is not the first time; I am honored to have entered this industry in the early second year after Ethereum's birth, and as a result, I personally experienced the largest crisis since Ethereum's inception.

I believe many veterans have experienced that crisis, and compared to today's community atmosphere, that crisis was very real, with many developers and holders staying awake for several days.

The end of Friday.

That day was June 17, 2016, if I remember correctly, it was a Friday. Like everyone else, after a tiring week of work, we received a message push from the work group. Upon seeing the ETH price on the exchange, I believe everyone was nearly fainting from shock.

Later, following the discussion, I found Vitalik's post on Reddit, which was short and direct: the DAO project that Ethereum participated in was attacked, and a large amount of ETH was stolen. Subsequently, all centralized exchanges received emails and contact requests to stop ETH trading and deposits/withdrawals, so everyone was working overtime that day, waiting for Ethereum's official next notification.

Interestingly, when I looked at the comments section of that Reddit post, it was mostly mocking Ethereum, especially from Bitcoin holders at the time, who critiqued Ethereum's design and flaws in great detail.

During those days, apart from a few Ethereum holders who continued to believe in Ethereum, the QQ group was filled with very aggressive comments.

But fortunately, due to some prior designs, the hacker couldn't directly withdraw the stolen assets and had to wait over 20 days to do so, and thus, everyone was waiting, waiting for the official next notification.

Subsequently, Vitalik published an announcement on the Ethereum blog, roughly meaning we are going to fork to save Ethereum and to prevent the hacker from obtaining 14% of the total ETH supply.