What is sad is that they are supposedly scrambling to setup 10k nodes to prevent this hardfork when all they will succeed if they aren't bluffing is an alt with 10k nodes and less than 1-2% hashing power. Hopefully they have some developers on hand to quickly change the difficulty retarget limit so they have a usable , but very insecure alt.
Keep in mind I am the best poker player in the world, I'll let us know if they are bluffing.
Couldn't Bitcoin just do something like Clams and Start with a new BlockChain with all addresses in the first Block and get rid of that 6 years worth of Bloat?
How amazing would it be to just eliminate like 50 Terabytes of data
Yes, Bitcoin could do something like that. Blockchain pruning has been discussed. Just issuing a new 'genesis block' containing all extant unspent txouts occasionally is the simplest brute-force blockchain pruning strategy.