>What scenario creates an incentive for a fork to die once it has been created? If mining fees get low enough to not be profitable, mining will cease and the f

>What scenario creates an incentive for a fork to die once it has been created? If mining fees get low enough to not be profitable, mining will cease and the fork will be dead (even if the chain still exists on inactive Nodes). >Because doing so multiplies the person's wealth. I don't think you can necessarily extrapolate this. In theory this should be something like when a public company splits or pays a dividend; the value of the parts should be equal to the whole. You're correct that it's not that way right now. That probably speaks to the inefficiency of the cryptocurrency markets currently but I would hope that that will improve.