This should be moved to 'Alternative cryptocurrencies'.
Promoting adoption of Bitcoin variants like Litecoin is in my opinion bad for peer-to-peer currency as a whole, as it promotes introducing additional money supplies, which reduces the integrity of peer-to-peer currency supply scarcity, and it fragments the network, while introducing nothing new in terms of the general functionality and security model.
You can create more Bitcoin with a hard fork, just like you can increase the block size limit with a hard fork. Once a hard fork happens in Bitcoin, I'm out, there's no guarantee Bitcoin's 21M limit won't be lifted with another hard fork.
You can call it a hard fork, or you can call it a mandatory upgrade version 3 blocks.
Either way I'm not worried about it because:
1) It's an upgrade that was discussed as eventually being necessary literally from the beginning so I don't consider it to be a change to the nature of Bitcoin.
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