[once_inc]

Agreed, but the big mining pools and stakeholders went with ETH, and with its minority hash rate, ETC died a slow death.

[whimsicalism]

It is about what people were willing to spend money to buy. Not the miners

[lmm]

Nah, it was about what the big name exchanges annointed, and that was decided by a cabal in which the big miners were significant players.