Why don't you think it has anything to do with competition?
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Replying to @DanielKrawisz @Truthcoin
Minority's experiments can use alts (or sidechains when available) to compete with no externalities. Forks try to gain notoriety at the expense of generating externalities and should be considered attacks to the main chain.
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Replying to @fnietom @Truthcoin
How does what you say here relate to my question at all?
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Replying to @DanielKrawisz @Truthcoin
It illustrates how forks are not needed to compete. Unless you consider attacks a legit tool to do so... If this practice becomes widespread Bitcoin will be forced to defend itself until it disappears.
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Replying to @fnietom @Truthcoin
Once again duh! the very idea of competition means that the competator can win. I think forks are better at winning so I prefer those.
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Replying to @DanielKrawisz @Truthcoin
No, forks are not better at winning, violence has a negative net value. BCH and BTG only 'succeeded' because Bitcoin wasn't prepared and assumed the cost, instead of defending itself, but externalizing your costs is not a sustainable strategy in the long run.
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You can't stop people from forking bitcoin. You could try to implement protocols that punish miners for doing work on minority chains that have (temporarily) higher profitability, but that would be another fork. Besides, that sounds a lot like socialism.
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Self-defence has nothing to do with socialism, quite the oposite: prevents forkers from obtaining an individual profit using your resources. Forkers are the socialist parasites.
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How do you propose preventing forks? Miners are free to mine whatever they want.
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Attacking the first one, as Luke did with merge-mined coins, so there is no expectation for others to succeed.
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Attacking with what? Hashpower. What can foil that plan and sustain a fork? More Hashpower. You're seeking a political solution to a problem that mediates itself through computation and economics.
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I’m not seeking political solutions, but market based ones. Eg. Using hivemind prediction markets.
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