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by Imnimo 1701 days ago
Printing more is always just a hard fork away.
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stickfigure 1701 days ago
And yet bitcoin has proven incredibly resilient to hard forks.
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legutierr 1701 days ago
By what metric has Bitcoin been resistant to hard forks? How many forks would there have to be for it not to be deemed resilient?
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Imnimo 1701 days ago
Resilient is not the same as immune, and it only takes one fork to create an arbitrarily large number of coins.
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neb_b 1701 days ago
Sure, but that doesn't mean the majority of the network will switch to using that new fork.
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