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.