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Slight adjustment Medium of Exchange in ethereum-basics/what-is-ether #394

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NeeradjGangapersad opened this issue Dec 13, 2019 · 0 comments

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Hi,

I noticed that the structure of the third paragraph might be improved.

This pertains to the following section: "The Ethereum network (and Ether) have functioned as expected for 99.99% of its life. The other 0.01% includes surviving The DAO, multiple large hacks of smart contracts, multiple protocol-level exploits, the Shanghai DoS attacks, constant negative remarks from the wider crypto community and multiple bear markets (including a recent 94% drop in price)".

I understand this section to be designed to demonstrate the robustness of the network, by stating that the network functions 99.99% of the time. In the next sentence, referring to 0.01% in which the network did not function, I think the writer is demonstrating "black swans" which caused disruption to the network. In this vein I think that "constant remarks from the wider crypto community and multiple bear markets" here have not stopped the network from functioning. Therefore, I think that these two categories should be removed to improve the quality of this paragraph.

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