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	Podcast:		WIRED Business – Spoken Edition
	Episode:		A Fight Over Specialized Chips Threatens an Ethereum Split
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:08:07
	Publish Date:		2019-04-09 06:11:22
	Description:		In July 2016, Ethereum endured an early test of faith. The people behind the barely year-old blockchain had taken Bitcoin’s idea of decentralized money and run with it, building a digital landscape where users, based on a mutual trust in code, could interact and create applications. Then hackers emptied $50 million from one of those applications, the DAO. Facing a crisis, a core group of developers swiftly altered Ethereum’s code to return the lost funds.
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