Quote from: pooya87 on February 18, 2021, 04:37:42 AM

Quote from: zeuner on February 17, 2021, 05:55:56 PM

Quote from: pooya87 on February 07, 2021, 05:40:07 AM

Quote from: zeuner on February 06, 2021, 03:11:53 PM

This might already happen implicitly. The forks so far showed that there is a large market for a cryptocurrency that stays mostly as it is. None of them comes even close to the market value of the cryptocurrency on the original chain.

That's not true at all. In fact the pioneer, bitcoin is changing every couple of years. We have added new things to the protocol such as new OP codes, have changed some consensus rules, fixed or improved some issues, added new script semantics, and a lot more.
The reason why "fork coins" (better said copycats) have been dumping ever since they were created is because they don't have anything new to offer, they simply copy everything from bitcoin and basically only change the name to "bitcoin-something".

Due to its mere size (measured by market cap), there is quite some incentive for Bitcoin to stay conservative with respect to changes in order to keep everyone in the boat. This is not the case for small blockchain with a smaller user base that might just accept whatever protocol changes the developers push into the code.

I disagree with this too. It has very little to do with the size of bitcoin. Even a smaller altcoin should not just push changes recklessly without long periods of testing and review by as many developers as possible. The fact that altcoins don't do this is simply because of their developers' incompetence and in most cases because of the fact that they are trying to hype up their altcoin and pump it temporarily by pretending they have "updated" the protocol and made it "better" by pushing some arbitrary change.

I'm not talking about what developers should do, but about a plausible causal connection:

Because Bitcoin is big enough, there is something at stake for the miners. Suppose an incompetent developer would push an arbitrary change, miners will think twice before adopting it. This is not necessarily the case for your random altcoin where the miner might not have any more lucrative plan than taking whatever code gets pushed and hoping the whole thing will fly at some point. So we have already one argument for a connection between the economic size of a blockchain and conservativeness with respect to changes.

For another one, just think how big the chance is for an altcoin with incompetent developers to get big...