Quote from: tread93 on Today at 04:29:14 AM

Every holder of Bitcoin could grab their other coins too which is crazyyy like imagine how much Satoshi has in just the shitcoins that's gotta be a lot of dough. I'm sure someone has figured what that bitcoin amount is! I just said bitcoin amount instead of dollar amount Cool

20% more Bitcoin was achievable from the largest dozen or so. In theory if you managed to nail the high trading point of each of them more would be possible, but there were people who actually achieved a 20% gain.

Quote from: adaseb on Today at 04:11:08 AM

Also keep in mind that each of these forks was a huge strain on space. Every fork was basically the same bitcoin blockchain cloned so it took up hundreds of Gigs just for a forked coin which is worth a few pennies each. And they had to keep all those forks in sync which was tough when the nodes were unrealiable.

Most didn't break pruning, so more like 10GB. You could also in some cases use the same block files for the shared chain with some hacking around the version number handling.

I hated dealing with it, but then I computed the effective $/hr dealing with it was earning and I didn't hate it anymore.

Quote from: jackpotmaster on August 22, 2025, 08:09:24 PM

Forks and most altcoins have damaged the perception and adoption of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, there is no way to go around this fact.

I'm doubtful. I think they pulled away a good number of idiots and fraudsters that otherwise would have been a greater nuisance in Bitcoin and depleted the funds of some fairly bad actors. It's true that bitcoin sometimes gets blamed for stupidity in other blockchains but at least you can so "no, that was poocoin, not Bitcoin"-- which is a better situation than the same bullshit having happened in Bitcoin.

Question is did the benefits exceed the harms, I'm not sure. But I do know that people having the freedom to actualize their beliefs (however stupid they are) is a fundamental good. The same freedom that lets dumbass altcoins exist is what makes it possible for Bitcoin to exist. I think we should give them some benefit of doubt.

It could be that the purpose of your blockchain was only to serve as a warning to others.