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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why no forks these days?
by
Alpen
on 23/08/2025, 03:25:17 UTC
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?

I remember that time well. I counted 69 Bitcoin forks before I just gave up. Because of all the blockchain splits, the situation was nicknamed the 'Attack of the Clones'. Today, however, there's no point in cloning cryptocurrencies that way anymore.

First, PoW blockchains aren't as popular as they used to be. Second, it's far cheaper and easier to just launch a memecoin these days