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You seem to be missing my point. I can fork Linux right now, make some random changes and I have a fully functioning equivalent system with those minor changes

• wolco 9y ago
  Because you can take those minor changes deploy to a smaller group where a decentralized exchange is required. For example an ad buying network. Or you can make your own coin and market it. It's the same as forking facebook's website code if they allowed that. You have a product you can use but without the scale of people and data it would give you a similiar level of value.
  • sethrin 9y ago
    People have been downvoting you because you're wrong, but someone should say why: the difference between your two examples is that a social network has some sort of value with a limited network, but a currency only has value where it is accepted.
• knocte 9y ago
  > I can fork Bitcoin right now, make some random changes to the consensus code, and I have a useless token that has absolutely no value. The value and usefulness of the token you would create is directly proportional to how good your change (divergence) to the software is.