You can always keep both, it doesn’t cost you anything.
If Bitcoin softforks and we get #drivechains (that don’t effect you, your node, or the lightning network), and everyone tells you to switch to a different version of Bitcoin to save it like our heroes in the blocksize wars, would you do it? If the price of the softfork goes down, will you make the switch?
'If there was another fork, BlackRock’s ETF prospectus says it gets to decide which of the two cryptocurrencies is the “real Bitcoin,” despite what investors or other users of the blockchain think, Lubka said. This likely would lead the firm to dump all of its holdings in whichever coin isn’t selected.
“If they’re sitting on 5 million Bitcoin, that means they’re going to sell 5 million of the other fork,” Lubka said. “They’re going to tank the price.”'
https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/06/27/blackrock-bitcoin-spot-etf-wall-street-influence/amp/
Discussion
Right, but if you run a node, you have to choose which software to accept. You either upgrade to the softfork and continue monitoring, keep it on the old fork and do nothing, or you switch to a brand new version.
I never upgrade my node, why would I? I never will. I like its current functionality, this is all I need, if it stops working: I was wrong and I will research at that point what options are available. Until that point in the future (if that happens, which is a big if) all of this is just noise. And if it was a fork I will find a way to extract my corn from it. I don’t see any reasons for concern here. They can all fork off as they wish.
Yes, I hope more people feel this way. There’s no reason to upgrade, and if drivechains are added, you’ll never see it.