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by tobias3 347 days ago
That's not completely true. If there is consensus among participants (especially exchanges) to change Bitcoin (fork) they can do it.

Can't do that with Gold.
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msgodel 347 days ago
That would be a different (forked) currency then.
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tobias3 347 days ago
Or it would be Bitcoin classic and have less/no value. See ETC vs. ETH. All depends on how many (important) market participants use which version.
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