Quote from: d5000 on March 17, 2017, 12:16:55 AM

Quote from: yefi on March 16, 2017, 11:50:58 PM

Quote from: rogerwilco on March 16, 2017, 08:59:37 PM

It'll be a total shitshow. The two warring factions will get coins on both chains, so they'll all start dumping on the chain they don't like while alts take over.

This. Bitcoin's dominance is already lower than it's ever been. With a hard fork, at least one alt is bound to surpass its mcap, which will be catastrophic. Undecided

For now, I don't think that they "take over". There is no real competitor in the top 10 of altcoins. D*sh is instamined and semi-centralized cr*p, ETH is not about payment but more a B2B solution. NEM is the Japanese Bankster Coin (JBC) and has a shady, blockchain-bloat-encouraging algorithm. Monero ... is OK but has even more scalability issues as BTC. Ripple and Byteball are totally centralized. LTC? Don't think so. So there is no real contender but all together could capture 50% of market share - and that would be already a hit for BTC.

Yep, if a hard fork managed to crater BTC, the market cap on all those alts is also going to be 1/2 or less of what they are now. There is no way in hell I would be holding alts if I thought the price of bitcoin was about to crash to $500-800.