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Re:Ending Bitcoin Support by WorldMaker on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @05:16PM (#16218327)
The distinction between "BTC" and "BCH" (and "BTCS" and "BCD" and so on ad infinitum) is cultural convention. There's no inherent technical merit (or alchemical nature) to one ledger over all other contenders, it's entirely a state of mind of its users.
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Re:Ending Bitcoin Support by milcron on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @09:17PM (#16219808)
Yes and no. Once the blockchain forks, the distinction between all those coins is very technical. Coins from one ledger cannot be spent on another ledger.

You're right though, cultural convention decides which blockchain is the "real" Bitcoin. Most people are using BTC at the moment, but Bitmain takes payment exclusively in BCH.

This might seem like a semantic quibble, but I think it's important. There will only ever be 21 million BTC, and only ever 21 million BCH. If Bitmain decided to charge 22 million BCH for their latest ASIC miner, nobody would ever be able to pay that bill regardless of how many forks there are.

For a blockchain fork to have any value whatsoever, people need to want to own it. Bitmain ASIC sales are driving demand for BCH. Every other Bitcoin fork is doing rather poorly.

Forks aren't diluting the value of BTC, because people know that BTC is the real asset. Everything else is like fool's gold.

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Re:Ending Bitcoin Support by root_axis on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:15PM (#16220032)
There is no intrinsic property that makes it "the real asset", it is a completely arbitrary distinction based on social coordination not on any fundamental property of the ledger.
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Re:Ending Bitcoin Support by milcron on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @02:19PM (#16225479)
That's true. But regardless of which ledger is "the real asset", there will only be 21 million of that coin.

You can clone the technology, but you can't clone societal acceptance.

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Re:Ending Bitcoin Support by WorldMaker on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:07PM (#16226798)
Only supposing there isn't a soft fork accepted by miners upping the maximum limit of coins.
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Re:Ending Bitcoin Support by eric_cc on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @09:08PM (#16219764)
What you’re saying makes no sense and is in no way shape or form accurate.
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