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Re:Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins by bduerst on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:27PM (#14916750)
XT and Classic did fork the blockchain and had the history though, meaning for a time they were an alt-coin with history.

That's completely counter intuitive to what you're saying about Matt's example not having a history.

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Re:Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins by DoctorBit on Thursday August 03, 2017 @12:30AM (#14916965)
No. XT and Classic were code forks, not blockchain forks. If certain runtime conditions had been met, they would have become blockchain forks, but those conditions were never met.
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Re:Bitcoin Exchange Had Too Many Bitcoins by Laforet on Thursday August 03, 2017 @12:23AM (#14916942)
Did they? IIRC neither fork left the proposal stage.
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