Quote from: User705 on February 23, 2018, 12:17:34 AM

Quote from: AlexGR on February 22, 2018, 08:38:32 PM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on February 22, 2018, 07:57:32 PM

with every fork on bitcoin the inflation rate is doubled, if they can lockstep the alt-fork coin prices to bitcoins they have pulled off a very effective dilution strategy to thwart bitcoins powerful deflationary attraction forces ... until bitcoin price dumps hard to purge the parasite bastards

With every fork, forks become increasingly meaningless... Wink

Not quite. While the whole they thing is spurious the fork problem is one of the few potential bitcoin issues. With every fork a dichotomy arises. Yes you can ignore them but that means value can be created from nothing. That doesnt quite make sense but in order to drop the price someone has to sell and someone has to buy and the moment that happens technically the value of the fork is a direct deduction on the value of bitcoin. Thats not to mention the issues of limited space on the original chain but unlimited space on the others.

After bitgold the subsequent forks have practically no value and are not traded on any decent exchange. They can't even be deposited on the few dubious exchanges where they are listed so they are not even worth of being splitted and practically do not exist, just 2-bit shitcoins.
https://btcdiv.com

I may be more impressed by some new alt with new bells and whistles.
And the limited space is a market too. Nothing is free.