Quote from: Janation on August 31, 2017, 02:48:41 AM

Quote from: Bitcoin.Optimist on August 31, 2017, 02:23:26 AM

https://medium.com/@bitcoinoptimist/bitcoin-so-successful-it-needs-to-be-changed-6cd8bac4d90d

Many people are being nervous everytime they heard the word fork, but for me it is a good sound. Bitcoin is being popular as the time passes and many more people are using it. It is really necessary to make some changes so bitcoin can take all of those users. The reason there are BIPs is because of this. Bitcoin is like a brain, there is still a lot of upgrade we just don't know how and when it will be upgrading we just need to try and try again.

Bitcoin has to be upgraded because of the increasing demand for it in terms of transactions. At the present, clogging can still be possible to happen anytime because its capacity is not enough anymore. Bitcoin is now slowly reaching the mainstream population.

Of course, Bitcoin has to be proactive too by thinking ahead of the future as it can not just sit idly and be a victim of its own success. In business, there had been a lot of firms that eventually faded because they were not able to handle the expected pressures of being successful...Bitcoin has to make sure that it will not happen to it otherwise it would be a laughingstock of the whole world.

Fork is just an upgrade actually and we should not be afraid of that as it means that a better and more accommodating Bitcoin can be possible to emerge. Now, the only thing is that in Bitcoin a hard fork can also result into a split when some miners would not go along with the decision and action of the majority...in this case there would be a new coin just like what happened with BitcoinCash (BCH).

Now, if there would be a contentious fork that means that we Bitcoin holders would be given new free coins...and that can be exciting, actually. Who would not want some free money, right?