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Re:Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion c... by maxerickson on Sunday February 02, 2014 @12:16PM (#7166626)
It's an important blockchain lesson, that there are no rules, only a combination of concentrated technical leadership and majority sentiment.

If the blockchain this happened on was serious business you would probably see mass abandonment.

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Re:Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion c... by fnordfnordfnord on Sunday February 02, 2014 @12:35PM (#7166694)
>It's an important blockchain lesson, that there are no rules, only a combination of concentrated technical leadership and majority sentiment.

Yeah.

>If the blockchain this happened on was serious business you would probably see mass abandonment.

The hard-currency fanatics would run. But where would they go?

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Re:Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion c... by pmorici on Sunday February 02, 2014 @02:09PM (#7167051)
They would just fork the code base and take their existing doge stash down a different path.
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