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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by jerguismi on Monday July 17, 2017 @01:24PM (#14790586)
If miners would do a hard fork with different protocol rules, that would be called something other than bitcoin, maybe "segwit2x-bitcoin" or something.
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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by kbaker on Monday July 17, 2017 @02:57PM (#14791348)
If the exchanges trade 'segwit2x-coin' as Bitcoin, it will become 'Bitcoin', and the legacy coin, if it is possible to use at all, will have to be renamed.
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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by xorcist on Monday July 17, 2017 @06:36PM (#14792824)
It's not that simple. Exchanges and custodial wallets hold other people's funds, so they are not allowed to decide arbitrarily which chain is "Bitcoin". That would be regulatory suicide.
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