confused?

if ethereum classic wins this fork .does not ethereum all just follow the winning fork? or am I missing something here and it is now a stand alone coin on its own from now
on ..ether classic that is

(on sidelines watching own no ether)

Is he jumping because of the fork ?
Interesting.

I get the mentality behind it and i am on the ETC side not ETH side.
But i REALLY wonder what do you do when a coin ends up having
an unexpected problem and requires a fork to fix it ?

What then guys ?
Let it fail i guess by your standards right ?

Reminds me of an incident with Jackpotcoin way back.
It was having some issues (can't recall what) but it needed a fork
so it was rolled out and it was not that big a deal.

There was also a hack too where a fork could have been put in play.
more like an attack / exploit and it did ultimately kill the coin off dead eventually.

JPC wallets all had the netcode backend enabled with the default password/name combo.
So you could login and do RPC commands on it..
Someone apparently sniffed out the list of IP's connected to the chain
and then knocked on all the doors finding any users who had it enabled via config settings.
Which was a lot of people !
Then the user sucked out a whole ton of coins then dumped them rapidly on i think Bittrex.
A patch was issued for the wallet and the attacker got away with it
But i knew the drama + plus dumping would not be good long term.

It did not take long at all for the popularity of JPC to die off.
And the price slumped and kept on slumping until it dropped to like 1 sat and was delisted all over.
So in a round about way the hack destroyed the coin !

I never called for a fork nor do i think i would have supported it.
Even though guys with BTER / NXT for example did in similar situations.
You'll also note the popularity of NXT died off for ever too.

I still have a pile of JPC coins i sat on because i was not in it for profit.
The majority of course were and quickly dumped the more the price dropped.
A domino effect that can never be stopped !
The majority rule the momentum in Crypto.

Immutability is not a desired attribute. The crypto currency will evolve all the time, it shall adapt to new situation.

reading this is quite funny, considering nxt's to the moon right now

i assume alot of people are gonna leave their coins on exchanges. what happens to the distribution then? do they exclude the known exchange addresses from the distribution? are the people who bought on the rise clever enough to realise they need to put the coins in a proper wallet? it's an absolute waste of money for them otherwise.