[jstanley]

That's not a close comparison at all.

When a cryptocurrency forks, you keep the same amount of coins on both sides but the 2 are wholly incompatible with one another.

A closer comparison is that you it's like 2 simultaneous futures, but with different consensus rules.

[cjhanks]

Oil futures exist and option prices are usually tied to speculation of quantity. If the price becomes wholly detached from scarcity; it's not a commodity or a currency, it's just means for speculative gambling.