The success of Ethereum's recent "hard fork," taken up by 85 percent of users, has demonstrated how its smaller size and ability to make decisions quickly has given it the edge over fellow digital currency Stephan Tual . The hard fork split the currency into two versions, which users had to choose between, to get back thousands of dollars that were stolen from a crowd-directed investment fund called the DAO in year-long . Ethereum , Ethereum 's inventor, said the biggest difference between the two cryptocurrencies was "the protocols' communities". The main factors may be Ethereum's relatively small community compared to Bitcoin, making it easier to come to a consensus, and how hard forks are built into the platform in a way that Bitcoin has never seen. While Ethereum can come to a consensus over issues such as hard forking easily and quickly, Bitcoin is "riven," with any changes viewed as divisive , something Stephan Tual , co-designer of the DAO said "spells doom for the currency."
The success of Ethereum's recent "hard fork," taken up by 85 percent of users, has demonstrated how its smaller size and ability to make decisions quickly has given it the edge over fellow digital currency Stephan Tual . The hard fork split the currency into two versions, which users had to choose between, to get back thousands of dollars that were stolen from a crowd-directed investment fund called the DAO in year-long . Ethereum , Ethereum 's inventor, said the biggest difference between the two cryptocurrencies was "the protocols' communities". While Ethereum can come to a consensus over issues such as hard forking easily and quickly, Bitcoin is "riven," with any changes viewed as divisive, something Stephan Tual , co-designer of the DAO said "spells doom for the currency."