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Mihai Alisie

Mihai Alisie

Community organizer and Ethereum co‑founder

Helped shape early governance discussions and community responses that affected node operators and developer alignment post‑fork

Engaged in community organization and public communication during the formative period of Ethereum providing platforms and commentary that structured deliberations around the DAO incident By curating discussions publishing explanatory material and interacting with stakeholders influenced how questions of normative legitimacy and technical remediation were perceived among node operators developers and early investors Actions included moderating community forums contributing to public explanatory pieces about the implications of possible interventions and helping coordinate meetings where technical and ethical trade offs were debated Those activities shaped sentiment and informed technical participants about community expectations which in turn affected whether particular implementers and miners chose to follow the fork or remain on the original chain The accumulated effect of early governance facilitation translated into concrete alignment patterns during the split some operators cited community consensus and public reasoning when selecting chain support That linkage between public deliberation and operational choice contributed to the retention of a functional unforked chain that became Ethereum Classic Continued involvement in blockchain projects and public commentary kept early governance questions alive in industry discourse reinforcing the frames that justified maintaining immutable ledgers and therefore bolstering ETC distinct narrative and community appeal

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