Quote from: Klausi on November 09, 2017, 10:53:42 AM

Quote from: audaciousbeing on November 09, 2017, 06:54:11 AM

Quote from: eugenedo1206 on October 14, 2017, 12:18:48 PM

Why is Bitcoin the predominant one among different forks, such as Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin SegWit2X?

Is it because Bitcoin is the most original one? Does it have to do with its price? Or does it have to do with its broad, generic name? Or because it's more widely adopted by many companies? In other words, is there some sort of complicated blockchain technology that will always make the Bitcoin most predominant one among different forks regardless of any circumstances? Is it theoretically possible for forks like Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin SegWit2X to be more predominant than Bitcoin in the future? I don't know much about blockchain technology and I wonder if it's ever related to the fact that Bitcoin's the most predominant one.

The main reason that I see is mainly because the believe people have in the core bitcoin is still strong as ever and even the stakeholders are the ones pushing for the continued dominance of the original bitcoin. For example on the forum here, anything other than BTC is pushed to the alt section that tells tells you the larger forum of crypto enthusiasts had already picked a side.

Going forward to the exchange sites, majority of them treat every other coin as an alt while its possible to change every other coin to btc, not every coin can change to the other forks. Another is the conversion to to fiat which is mostly predominantly on bitcoin compared to other forked coins.

Yes exactly that's how it is currently been happening right now with the forked coins. Most investors and quick traders really converts their btc to fiat cash after the good price really updated with the system. Like if we have to trade and eth contract coins, then a trader holds the eth they have will again trade to btc in order to earn fiat cash for daily living expenses. That's why fork nowadays doesn't seem to be visible to happen due to the blockchain devs now closely monitored all transactions to be out of any major congestion.

What if those people choose to hold their bitcoin and don't bother to cash out their holding to fiat, would it improve the network? Would be the congestion lessen? In my own words here, the fork always happens when there's system error like power tripping and other hardware related concerns which downed the mining system. This scenario also contributes with the fork or the segwit2x, because those miners widens the flow of the network transactions to make easier and faster nodes processing.