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Worrying about what oblivious clam owners (mostly owners of undug clams) will think about changing something about Clams, if that even happens, is a strange anxiety and not productive. Stakers are the network, and the network is the cryptocurrency.
My concern is not about future whale diggers, my concern is:
"Why would future users of Clam, buy Clams, knowing that the protocol can change
if majority holders don't like something about the protocol, at that time?"
My concern is future users/investors.
For example with bitcoin, what if in the future, the 21 million cap is raised to 42 million?
The BTC price would not only tank due to future increase in potential supply,
but also the fact that the rules were changed, and that means there is no fundamental truth to the coin.
Nothing is "written in stone" with the coin. The risk of future loss is greater now, than if the protocol never changed, IMO.
Forking to 2 coins does not make sense.
I wouldn't consider "Cooked Clams" a fork.
I think it would be like a layer on top of the Clam network.
DogeParty is considered a layer to the Doge network.
(
http://www.dogeparty.io/)
(
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/dogecoin-community-burning-currency-dogeparty/)
But I'm not a coder, so I don't know if a layer to Clam is still actually a fork of Clam.