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mindcandy 15 hours ago

> in fact they can start doing so today

In fact they already have. There are 10s of thousands of forks of Bitcoin. Only a handful ever got significant attention. And, the original is still much larger than all of the forks combined.

windward 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The original died in 2010. It was replaced with a very significant, large fork.

ab5tract 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Right, but a counter point is the etherium fork. Only a handful of people stayed on the “classic” chain after that first DAO turned out to have a massive extraction bug in it.