I agree let them try and fork first. Imo bitcoin community is very resilient.

They have been dumping trying to drive the price down and pumping shit corporate coin like zcash (where Ver and pboc by proxy are investors and receiving a portion of every block mined).

Bitcoin is fine - have pow ready (memory Intensive) stick to it and announce it so the bitcoin faithful know what to expect. And if pboc want to fork off let them. No users that understand what bitcoin really stands for will be following them no matter how many threats they make. This is very simple.

Side note I never bothered posting on here but I signed up in 2013. Bitcoin will be just fine. Buy cheap coins spend and replace and hold on. They will keep throwing their money away till they have none left. Bitcoin is an idea And you can not kill it. You can only replace it with a better one and that one is not centralized mining.

Memory hardened is not susceptible to bot nets if the memory requirement is adequate. That is the fud gpu farmers push. Higher memory requirement would eliminate that non issue.