On Wednesday 11 May 2016 22:58:48 Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Timo Hanke via bitcoin-dev > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is what I meant. If existing hardware gets forked-out it will > > inevitably lead to the creation of an altcoin. Simply because the hardware > > exists and can't be used for anything else both chains will survive. I was > > only comparing the situation to a contentious hardfork that does not fork > > out any hardware. If the latter one is suspected to lead to the permanent > > existence of two chains then a hardfork that forks out hardware is even > > more likely to do so (I claim it's guaranteed). > > There are already many altcoins out there, we could not prevent that > even if we wanted to. New ones are created all the time.
Comparing apples and oranges. Altcoins have their own genesis block, the example Timo was talking about was a fork in the Bitcoin blockchain. But its good to know you don't mind a fork in the Bitcoin chain, I'll remember that. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
