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I usually only talk about positive things, but since this is a post of Bear, let's bring out some bearish facts

There is a possible hard fork in the near future, where user might be forced to switch blockchain. If you use original software, you will stay with original protocol, and if you use a new software published by btc foundation, you will use the new protocol. Both protocol do not accept the block on another chain, so coin generated on one chain become invalid in another chain (not sure if old coins will  be affected)

I don't really understand the necessity of such a hard fork, but anyway core developers said there are this this and this reason that we should/should not raise the transaction size limit, the debate has been going on for one year

The debate splited into two different political view regarding how BTC will perform in the future, I think this revealed a potential weakness in BTC: Currently there is no good decision making process established in btc community, if some developer with big influence decided to make a change in protocol, while some others do not agree, they might go ahead and make this fork, and we will get a split after the hard fork, so that some group of user stay with the original, and some other group goes with the new protocol, if that split is 50-50, that will almost immediately cut the BTC price by half. It is not about the technology itself, it is about people's trust of blockchain

I had a poll for this, have a mixed result without any majority:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140516.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140516.0)

硬分叉果然出现了，希望不会变成什叶派和逊尼派之争。这里的Hero member们哪去了？怎么还是很很淡定啊？

这硬分叉和你想象的硬分叉不大一样. 这个分叉已从225455起统一了.请读https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152030.msg1613197#msg1613197 . 比特币目前没有任何硬分叉的打算. 真正的硬分叉需要100%人统一才行得通. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140516.msg1495771#msg1495771)

还有一点没搞明白，我在英文主版看了很长时间都没找到答案，据说后来还是矿工们从0.8版本返回到0.7版本才解决的问题，那，数据块扩容的事（1个M扩容到1个G）暂时搞不成了？