nice clickbait. i'll believe it when it see it. most of these people involved may be fractious assholes, but they're also pragmatic and greedy. everyone on both sides knows that bitcoin might take a fatal hit if it ended up happening.
I would have to agree. A nearly even (49/51 etc) fork is very unlikely. If in the extremely unlikely event one was to occur, it would be pretty lopsided and likely the lower hash fork would lose hashpower extremely quickly as the rational choice would be to dump the low hashpower fork. The value in bitcoin is such - as compared to an alt - that running the losing fork would quickly be a low value (lost value even) proposition.
As Core arrogantly continues to not listen to the screams to increase the blocksize, a fork becomes more likely. The coin would not split into two chains however, people will choose the dominant one to avoid losing out. The synthetic fork concept seems like a good way to avoid risk, Core seems to be ignoring this innovation for the time being.
