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Has Any Major Blockchain Successfully Executed a Rollback Due to a Dispute?

Yes, Ethereum executed a hard fork after the 2016 DAO hack to recover stolen funds, creating Ethereum Classic.
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Has Any Major Blockchain Successfully Executed a Rollback Due to a Dispute?

Yes, the Ethereum blockchain executed a controversial hard fork in 2016 following the DAO hack, effectively "rolling back" the chain to recover stolen funds. This created two separate chains: Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC).

This was not a standard contract dispute but a catastrophic security event, demonstrating the technical possibility but highlighting the deep ideological divide on immutability.

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