Today, in a major milestone in the development of the Ethereum platform and cryptocurrencies, the Ethereum community has massively voted in favor of the hard fork orchestrated to solve the DAO attack crises.
Once the Ethereum blockchain reached block #1920000, scheduled code changes kicked in and the whole forking process took approximately 15 minutes. BW.com pool mined the first block after the fork, hence all DAO assets are now frozen and sent to the new address of the contract.
The decision to make a hardfork has been widely critised by the community, but the truth is that its success brings certain stability and comfort for Ether and DAO holders as well as the whole ecosystem.
In spite of a hard fork being a controversial decision in a decentralized environment where automation should prime, this fork and the positioning of stakeholders in its favor means that in a decentralized system the community's vote counts as the RULING OF THE SUPREME COURT.