Quote from: d_eddie on Today at 01:17:46 AM

Quote from: Torque on September 11, 2020, 03:46:59 PM

Quote from: VB1001 on September 11, 2020, 09:02:14 AM

I know this is impossible, but I would like to know what Hal Finney would think of the overall Bitcoin situation, exchanges, forks, asics farms, long shorts, bets

Me too.

I know one thing, even though Satoshi thought through a lot of variables and possibilities, I doubt that he/they envisioned bullshit forks persisting and hanging around indefinitely.

Did Finney or Nakamoto ever mention such an event/situation as a market for forks? 2 sMerit to the first finder of a quote.

IIRC, Satoshi only talked about 51% attacks, minority/majority versions of the software, etc... And it is about that where he says only the majority chain would survive making the minority chain become irrelevant. I don't think he really cared or give much thought about the possibility of some people creating a fork no matter if it tried to bank on a similar name, most of the code, or reuse Bitcoin blockchain as an starting point.

So... maybe it is a tricky question/challenge? Will keep reading and see what comes...

There can only be ONE Bitcoin, no matter how many decide to fork from it for whatever reasons.