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March 09, 2017, 08:28:23 PM
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though any majority will lead to gaining the blockheight. the FIGHT(orphan risk) for blockheight is much more if the majority was say 51% rather than say 91%

You should really stop telling this.   With a hard fork, there is no "orphan risk",  you just have two chains, two coins, and that's it.
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March 09, 2017, 09:10:33 PM
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You should really stop telling this.   With a hard fork, there is no "orphan risk",  you just have two chains, two coins, and that's it.

lol you really have been fed the spoon of blockstream

"hard fork" is an umbrella term with several possible outcomes below it.

its whoevers script you have read that has sold you into thinking that soft = 1 result best case scenario. and then stroked ur head into thinking only good things will happen

hard=1 result worse case scenario. and punched ur heead into thinking only bad things will happen

please try understanding bitcoin and run MANY scenarios.
it will help you understand bitcoin better

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March 09, 2017, 09:20:27 PM
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You should really stop telling this.   With a hard fork, there is no "orphan risk",  you just have two chains, two coins, and that's it.

lol you really have been fed the spoon of blockstream

"hard fork" is an umbrella term with several possible outcomes below it.

its whoevers script you have read that has sold you into thinking that soft = 1 result best case scenario. and then stroked ur head into thinking only good things will happen

Of course I don't think that.  My favorite scenario is where bitcoin successively hard forks into several different coins.  It is not a good thing that essentially all crypto is centralized into one single chain.   A single crypto, and a single chain, is also a form of centralization that should be broken.

But what I *prefer* is independent of how I think that the dynamics works.  And you are entirely confused about how hard forks work, because you still talk about "common chain height", orphaning, and so on.

So although my preferred scenario is where bitcoin hardforks into many different coins, I think this will not happen as long as bitcoin carries with it its first mover advantage: this has to erode away first.   And it might very well be that bitcoin will not be used as a transaction medium before this happens: as mainly a vault-reserve currency, where the meager transaction volumes are used to settle between institutional players ; or as an immutable ledger with limited space, that is sold for a lot of money by miners (and the coin is just an app coin that doesn't matter any more, as it is more expensive to move it than the coin's value).

I don't know what will be the outcome for bitcoin.  

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March 09, 2017, 11:16:28 PM
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My favorite scenario is where bitcoin successively hard forks into several different coins.  

you can do that now. find a few people that agree with you. and then set your node to blacklist everyone apart from those people.
thus starting your own network that wont orphan against bitcoin because it doesnt see bitcoin.

you dont need any big community activation event. just find people that want the same as you and connect to them and ban the rest.

you then have your own altcoin

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