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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Forked block chain
by
Stephen Gornick
on 18/04/2013, 20:04:09 UTC
Your fork will have coins pre-distributed so you don't have the problems with early adaptors.

You might be overlooking the obvious. 

The spend transactions from the "pre-distributed"  coins would be valid on both sides of the fork.  Thus if bitcoin is trading at $90, let's say, and you are asking me to pay 10,000 ?TC for a pizza then I'm certainly not going to be using my pre-distributed coins and instead would only be using ones whose coinbase occurred post-fork.

And even putting that aside, you've got a fork that is extremely vulnerable to 51% attack.