> I think that statement is a little disingenuous. There haven't been any attacks that target Etherium proper, only bugs in smart contracts riding on top of Eth.

This is a bit No True Scotsman. It's like "secured by math!" about Bitcoin - the ecosystem is rife with fraud and error.

So too with Ethereum. Given that smart contract functionality is literally Ethereum's unique selling point, you can't claim that is somehow not something that can be discussed as a problem with Ethereum. They broke the immutability guarantee for one bad smart contract, after all.

You really can't say "Ethereum is completely secure!! Except for everything that people actually use it for" without being more than a little disingenuous yourself.

I don't mean that I have concerns about Ethereum itself, just the fact that it's currently too easy to write insecure contracts. And there has been some low-hanging fruit in remedying that, such as the whole "functions are public unless otherwise specified" thing.

Only a 31MM dollar bug, nothing to see here, we're secure.

WAT?

If Ethereum is forking because of contract problems, then an Ethereum contract problem is an Ethereum problem.