Seriously, if we just look at how many hardforks bitcoin will get this month. Will that have a positive or negative impact on bitcoin?
https://preview.ibb.co/cjWMpb/kc85_Mynoi.jpgI can imagine, now that bitcoin becomes more and more mainstream, that more forks will follow next year. However does a negative hardfork impact bitcoin in the future?
I think that in time all forks will be bad as it draws strength from bitcoin and adds competition, thus diluting bitcoins market share. Of course many of the forks are going to be fairly redundant but some of them are capable of harming bitcoin going forward. Although the other way to look at it is to see it as competition to push bitcoin to continue to improve.