Re:The Schism Over Bitcoin Is How Bitcoin Is Supposed to Work
by MCRed on Friday February 12, 2016 @02:11PM
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They won't be forced to switch but they will be highly incentivized to do so, as people in the minority coin sell them out to buy the majority coin.
Will be really interesting if any exchanges support this concept of two bitcoin chains coexisting. I bet they don't.
Re:The Schism Over Bitcoin Is How Bitcoin Is Supposed to Work
by TD-Linux on Friday February 12, 2016 @03:01PM
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Right, but it's also hard to define the "majority" and "minority" coin here. You could define "majority" based on "most hashpower", but say that chain is being mined exclusively by the 3 largest China-based miners, would it still be considered the most valuable? Or maybe only by one miner, like when ghash.io was over 50%?
If the exchanges don't support the concept, it'll still at least be up to the user to figure out which chain the exchange is on.
It really isn't a democracy - there is no method to force the minority into the majority's will. If a controversial chain fork happens, there will now be two Bitcoin currencies. Those on the original chain won't be forced to switch.