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Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum can handle temporary loss of finality
Odaily Planet Daily Report: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on X platform stating that occasionally losing finality is not a big deal. Finality is intended to ensure that blocks are not rolled back. If due to a significant client error, finality is delayed by a few hours, as long as the erroneous block is not finalized, the situation can be tolerated, and the chain will continue to operate during this period. Computer science PhD Fabrizio Romano Genovese agrees with Vitalik Buterin's view, noting that when finality is lost, Ethereum becomes more like Bitcoin. He explained that Ethereum's finality mechanism is that when a block receives more than