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by sidko 2774 days ago
The value of Bitcoin comes from social consensus. You cannot fork that. You can only fork a code repository. End of the day, it is just a bunch of 1s and 0s without a social consensus of value.
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> The value of Bitcoin comes from social consensus. You cannot fork that.

Can’t? Perhaps it is difficult, but not impossible. I can think of some examples of forking social consensus: x11-wayland, Debian-Ubuntu, star office - open office - whatever office it is now.

You are begging the question. "Social consensus" is literally the same thing market value.