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LOT of ignorance coming from these trolls. I'm no longer going to engage them but rather inform others instead.
there are CODE forks,
and there are CHAIN forks.
code forks lead to alt coins if there are too many different changes to the rules.
a Hard Fork (protocol upgrades)
can be a chain fork if not everyone upgrades.
If there is a hard fork and the history is the same? It's not an alt-coin.
If there is a hard fork and there is a new genesis block? alt-coin.
It gets a little confusing because a CHAIN fork requires a CODE fork.
What's important to know about hard forks is that they are VOLUNTARY.
The act of duplicating tokens so that everyone has ownership of both leads to a win-win outcome.
how? Competition for resources (mining power, talent, users, value) is a zero-sum game.
By having tokens , everyone has the same fair voice on either chain.
The whole "money printed out of nothing" is bunk.
If you had 1 BTC before the fork, you had a total wealth of $2,700.
Today you have $3,250 + $200 = $3,450.
Bitcoin cash didn't create money out of nothing, a lot of fiat was added to crypto (over $110b market cap now). And for everyone Bitcoin cash that was "dumped" means there was a buyer who picked it up for that price.
Many people are wanting to buy "cheap" Bitcoin cash because if Bitcoin Cash does absorb the miners and ecosystem, well... people will be panicking and probably converting their BTC for BCC.
Here's something interesting to note about people who refer to it as "Bcash". They feel threatened that Bitcoin cash has somehow "hijacked" the branding. They use Bcash to intentionally mislead people , hoping that people don't discover bitcoin cash or dismiss it.
But, There is already
BitcoinDark
Bitcoin Plus
Bitcoin Scrypt
Bitcoin Planet,
and Bitcoin Fast...
How come no one gave a shit about those "hijacking" the brand?