Ah yes, cryptocurrency: built on an immutable ledger so that your money is safely secured by your private key until the project devs decide it’s not.

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andirk 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The article states it's just a fork, AKA a separate coin that copy/pastes the current Bitcoin ledger. Even if every dev wants this, that is a "hard fork" (not backwards compatible), and creates a new version of the coin. Ex: if you want to add a smiley face to some Bitcoin log output, you 1) make the change, and 2) nothing happens until 3) miners agree to use that new version.

Look into "Bitcoin Cash", a near identical coin except it has a larger block size. Completely different token and therefore has 0 effect on Bitcoin.

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hypeman1 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Everything is safe until it isn’t

	▲	akerl_ 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well yea. But so much of the bitcoin/crypto was specifically built on the idea that technology and “decentralized” blockchains were the right and necessary solution to protect us from this kind of centralized human manipulation.