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Enough people think the changes are a good idea that they switch versions.

SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
Can you show when this has successfully happened? Can you show a popular coin that the devs went one direction with, a different group didn’t like, forked, and became more used than the original?
- Karunamon 8y ago
  More used? No, but why is that necessary? Wide use is all that's necessary. Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum Classic are traded on all crypto exchanges that matter.
  - SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
    Both of those have suffer major losses to low or near record lows. Is that really a good pitch for ”just fork it if you don’t like it!” I just want people to admit and understand their “decentralized” commodities are anything but. Yea, the mathy database is, but you still need to put all your trust in a handful of developers with mostly no economics experience, no oversight, and no track record.
- rocqua 8y ago
  CryptoNote It is the predecessor to Monero, development there stalled in politics, and some people forked Monero. Admittedly, it wasn't very big when the split happened. I'm not sure of the capitalization.
  - SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
    Hmm, CryptoNote doesn't seem to be a currency at all. It seems to be a code base behind other currencies as much as I can tell. CryptoNoteCoin seems to be a reference implementation that isn't "real". The discussion is when did a coin - fork into a different coin and become more successful than it's predecessor? Because if it's "well, never... yet!", then the argument that "development is centralized but that's ok because you can just fork it if you don't like the developer's plans" - is effectively a lie. Also, while I probably know way less than you on this overall, I do know Monero has seen successful because it's effective to be run as a scam on victim computers (mining malware) and on websites that use JS on your computer to mine coin. Almost all the web and malware mines Monero. It gives me the impression as the least legitimate coin I can think of because of the number of times I've seen this.

Can you show when this has successfully happened? Can you show a popular coin that the devs went one direction with, a different group didn’t like, forked, and became more used than the original?

Karunamon 8y ago
More used? No, but why is that necessary? Wide use is all that's necessary. Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum Classic are traded on all crypto exchanges that matter.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
  Both of those have suffer major losses to low or near record lows. Is that really a good pitch for ”just fork it if you don’t like it!” I just want people to admit and understand their “decentralized” commodities are anything but. Yea, the mathy database is, but you still need to put all your trust in a handful of developers with mostly no economics experience, no oversight, and no track record.
rocqua 8y ago
CryptoNote It is the predecessor to Monero, development there stalled in politics, and some people forked Monero. Admittedly, it wasn't very big when the split happened. I'm not sure of the capitalization.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
  Hmm, CryptoNote doesn't seem to be a currency at all. It seems to be a code base behind other currencies as much as I can tell. CryptoNoteCoin seems to be a reference implementation that isn't "real". The discussion is when did a coin - fork into a different coin and become more successful than it's predecessor? Because if it's "well, never... yet!", then the argument that "development is centralized but that's ok because you can just fork it if you don't like the developer's plans" - is effectively a lie. Also, while I probably know way less than you on this overall, I do know Monero has seen successful because it's effective to be run as a scam on victim computers (mining malware) and on websites that use JS on your computer to mine coin. Almost all the web and malware mines Monero. It gives me the impression as the least legitimate coin I can think of because of the number of times I've seen this.