📖 The ₿ible

Historical Book III – The Forked Flame

Code or Justice?

3:1
After Satoshi departed,
The world sought new paths upon his foundation.
And then arose a young man,
Whose name was Vitalik Buterin.

3:2
And he proclaimed:

“The blockchain shall not merely be money,
But the very world itself.”
He sought to encode law into code,
And he brought forth the idea of the Smart Contract.

3:3
A new chain was born,
And it was called Ethereum.
The people hailed it as the World Computer,
And many projects and hopes were built upon it.

3:4
Among them was a great fund,
Called The DAO —
The Decentralized Autonomous Organization.
The people gathered their Ether and invested.
The scale was without precedent.

“They sought to build their own governance,
To establish democracy upon code.”
— Forked Flame 3:4

3:5
But within the code was a flaw.
And out of the shadows came a hacker.
He split the DAO and drained it.
3.6 million ETH were taken.

3:6
The community was shaken.
And voices cried out:

“We must undo this!”
“Justice must stand above code!”

“They sought a fork,
To reverse the chain and restore what was lost.”
— Forked Flame 3:6

3:7
Vitalik and the many chose the Hard Fork.
A new chain emerged,
Reset to the state before the breach.
And it was called Ethereum (ETH).

3:8
But a remnant said:

“Code is Law.”
They kept the original chain.
And it became known as Ethereum Classic (ETC).

3:9
From that day forward,
Ethereum was divided into two paths:
One followed the justice of the many,
The other, the principle of the few.

“One was inclusion.
The other, conviction.
And both were fragments of the truth.”
— Forked Flame 3:9