I know the idea of a hard fork scares people. Its fucking scary.
consensual forks are not scary. orphans take over the minority, and thats the point. thats what the consensus mechanism is all about.its the doomsday of intentional splits (like ethereum intentionally split) which is a separate thing, called controversial, which are scary.
Ethereum did not intentionally split. Vitalik and his chronies intentionally hard forked, but they assumed that by having the support of the major mining pool administrators and client/wallet developers (IOW, a dozen or two people), that the original chain would just die. But of course it didn't. Users remained, speculators speculated, miners returned to the original chain. It was not intentional. That's why the Ethereum Foundation told exchanges to ignore the original chain and ignore replay attacks. They planned on the original chain just dying. Silly, especially in a case where the hard fork rewrites history.
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.Hmmm. No thanks. Good luck.