They forked BTC and made BCC. This means I had some BCC I never paid for, so I just put it in an exchange and brought some BTC with it. Now, I only had 0.3 BTC but there must be with loads who have a darn sight more and who got a LOT of BCC for nothing. This raises some questions.
- Can it be good for the crypto economy if a load of money suddenly appears out of nowhere?
- How much BCC immediately got converted back into BTC?
- What's to stop people forking again, just to make a killing like this?
Was BCC good or bad in this respect?
BCC was good and bad.
Good because the people who wanted it now have their own coin. It got rid of the toxicness that was everyone arguing all the time.
Bad in that it probably confused a lot of people. But most people don't know about regular bitcoin anyways, so it probably didn't confuse too many.