Ok ok i thought that’s how those chains came about but i started getting real confused when you said it was impossible. I got you.
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There have been many forks. All of them were failures.
Great chart
I’m speaking of hard forks by the way, ones that created a new token. Soft forks have been useful to add new functionality, but they don’t render old UTXOs incompatible. That’s the difference.
Ok so this is what I meant earlier when I asked if his coins would be “incompatible”. I thought there had been small changes to the network over time but I wasnt differentiating between soft and hard forks.
Yeah, that’s not easy to understand at first.
Two books I would recommend on the subject:
Inventing Bitcoin by nostr:npub1fqn4fgzkk8nm2x3wd600n935c9tc7xgg9jhk5dfa0kuvrgvsyv7sgu536l
The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier
nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev recorded both of them on audiobook, they’re outstanding.
