Are hard forks the poor developer's ICO?
Two attempts since August to hard fork bitcoin, two more ahead of us. These developers just want lay claim to the best cryptocurrency and instead of creating it from scratch they feel they need to hijack bitcoin - why?
Developers who pursue hard forks really are trying to get something for nothing. And they give us something for nothing (in the airdrop) to try to get us to subscribe to their sheisty intentions.
Hard forks are great for Bitcoin, because the prove that Bitcoin is right and strong. But I don't see how anyone can have pride in supporting or developing a hard fork.
Can you?
With ICO's developers create new coins and sell them for BTC or ETH, but with Bitcoin forks you have to own BTC to get forked coins, so it's not as profitable as running an ICO unless you are a whale.
However, forks are attempting to hijack Bitcoin's name and all their value is based around it, since they don't have any improvements besides a few changed lines of code that raise the limit of blocksize. So, it's quite easy to fork Bitcoin, but the hard part is promoting it - you have to spend much more than on promoting some ICO's, while ICO's are not much harder to launch - usually they don't have any prototypes, only whitepaper, ANN and site. Both forks and ICO's can be viewed as potential scams, so newbies should be very careful before deciding to send their BTC to someone promising them high returns or "the real Bitcoin".