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Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to... by tobias3 on Saturday July 05, 2025 @05:17AM (#44471313)
That's not completely true. If there is consensus among participants (especially exchanges) to change Bitcoin (fork) they can do it.

Can't do that with Gold.

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Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to... by msgodel on Saturday July 05, 2025 @05:19AM (#44471318)
That would be a different (forked) currency then.
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Re:Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to... by tobias3 on Saturday July 05, 2025 @07:52AM (#44472116)
Or it would be Bitcoin classic and have less/no value. See ETC vs. ETH. All depends on how many (important) market participants use which version.
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