Will the Fork End in an Alt Coin

[jeromanomic]

http://www.finance-guy.net/finblog/bitcoin-forkin-war an outside look at the XT / Core debate

[CryptoEdge]

Yes. But not just another alt-coin, one that uses all bitcoins in existence as a 'pre-mine'.

https://i.imgur.com/7Z2cHyM.png

[cellard]

Yes. But not just another alt-coin, one that uses all bitcoins in existence as a 'pre-mine'.

Only one of the chains will survive, the lest will be deprecated. Simple market forces will make the other coins non usable because they will be rendered worthless. Anyway let's hope Core gets the BIP it needs to settle this situation and we can continue growing the project and improving it.

[gentlemand]

Crap article in general. That aside, everyone clings to their ideology until it looks like they're on the losing side. I'd be very surprised if a weaker chain lasted more than a few days before it dwindled to irrelevance.

[turvarya]

I stopped reading after the first sentence:

On August 15th, Bitcoin XT was released, creating what is known as a 'fork' in the blockchain.   

That is just BS.

There are three ways how this will go:
There will be a new BIP, Core and XT will use.
BIP101 gets enough support, so Core will implement it eventually.
No BIP gets enough support and everything stays the same(for some time)

None of this scenarios will lead to something, I'd call a fork.

[TinEye]

Yes. But not just another alt-coin, one that uses all bitcoins in existence as a 'pre-mine'.

Only one of the chains will survive, the lest will be deprecated. Simple market forces will make the other coins non usable because they will be rendered worthless. Anyway let's hope Core gets the BIP it needs to settle this situation and we can continue growing the project and improving it.

from what i understood, if both chain have consensus 50% from miners and merchants there is the possibility to have two coins, equally viable, and would be a problem to indentify the real bitcoin if something like this happen, with both of these coins with the same value at the beginning, and 50% after initial dump

[gentlemand]

from what i understood, if both chain have consensus 50% from miners and merchants there is the possibility to have two coins, equally viable, and would be a problem to indentify the real bitcoin if something like this happen, with both of these coins with the same value at the beginning, and 50% after initial dump

If a 50/50 situation ever arises then I think the game is over. That's why XT, whatever you think of it, settled on 75% (which is still a little low) for two solid weeks before switching.