I watched a recent youtube video by Bankless called Did Ethereum Crash,
and learned that there are things called clients in Ethereum.
"A client is an implementation of Ethereum that verifies data against
the protocol rules and keeps the network secure." And there are
various types/flavors of clients, and this is thought to be a good
thing as they saw in the recent Ethereum problem, which turned out was fixed by a few types of clients, but a couple (or one, forget)
could not handle the situation that had come up, and it caused a delay in finalizing transactions. But it seems to me that the clients MUST have some sort of baseline Ethereum software, and this problem should have been handled the same in all the clients - that is, recognize this problem problem and fix it. But then again, HOW WAS I TO KNOW... nyuk,
nyuk, nyuk...