should have simply at the beginning actually forked the coin..as a result it likely would be a lot more successful than it is now...
Why we chose to do it as a snapshot fork instead of just copying the blockchain:
- We used a proof of stake codebase without segwit support.
- In order to prune the blockchain from a massive 147 GB to less than 1.5 GB. That original size would have severely limited masternode creation and increased staking node hardware requirements. We wouldn't have anywhere close to the 170 or so full nodes running that we have now and 0 managed masternode hosts.
To get the full bitcoin fork marketing benefits, BTC2 would have needed to launch its main net in 2017 like the early simple forks did. It just wasn't ready at that time.