Quote from: Zoomic on August 06, 2025, 11:30:19 PM

When you read old threads, you will hear of many soft forks and including a few hard forks that gave birth to Bitcoin Cash , Bitcoin gold, Bitcoin SV. The last one should be BSV in 2018.
What happened differently that there are no threats or signs of forking?

Interest in Bitcoin-based forks waned as a result of some exchanges not honoring customers' coins. Some of them just kept the forked coins without listing them for trading. Not to mention, interest has moved away from forks into more speculative crypto assets (such as "meme" coins and NFTs). We were close to getting another fork due to the network congestion caused by Ordinals inscriptions (Bitcoin Knox). But it didn't happen because the community had no problem with Ordinals.

I wouldn't envision another Bitcoin-based fork anytime soon. Most of them fail in the long run, now that many investors consider them direct clones of the original Bitcoin blockchain. Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin Gold, etc. all carry the Bitcoin brand/name. So even if they have a few tweaks here and there, no one will pay attention to them. Miraculously, BCH is the only fork that's among the top 20 coins in market cap. It's worth half a thousand dollars right now ~$550. Only time will tell how long will it stay there. I'd just keep holding BTC alone and forget about the rest.