I was thinking that it would be interesting to see 2 alts in the market (I am dead serious):
SegWit and Classic.
Then see which one gets the biggest hashrate. It would be interesting I think.
Problem is how miners will be motivated to open their old asics for this, I mean probably nobody will be interested to speculate on these alts, I maybe dead wrong though!
Opinions?
That would be the best outcome, make two clean hardforks (leaving untouched the legacy Bitcoin) and let free market choose. Which has been the case for all the shitcoin proposals out there.
But the thing is the belligerents forkers dont have the balls nor the talent to do so as they know they'll eat their shorts because bitcoin's value proposal doesn't thrives from progress nor from mass adoption transactionism but from trustless and apolitical immutability.
if some hardforking change is so valuable, why couldn't an altcoin prove that value and earn its place in the free market and eventually supplant the inferior alternative? Why is that inferior to changing the immutable (within the context of the system) rules when doing so is against the will of any of its users[1]? Or to use the language of libertarian dogma: Must change only come by force? Can any blockchain cryptocurrency survive if it becomes a practice and perception that the underlying software contract will be changed?
This shit has been going on for years now, and them block size maniacs keeps on bitching all around like they matter.
But again, Bitcoin no gives fuck. Sorry.