FORKS ARE CRAP, stop asking for forks because we all know that they are the same crap, they are just created to help the dev to make easy money, and the only ones who are claiming them all the only ones who are always exposed to lose all their bitcoins. They are not even worth a single buck.
Yes to some degree you are right if they are just taking the old code and adding a tweak because it needs a new
data structure completely so that the network has an hierarchical structure.
The data from the chain needs importing to a DB and to then be split up into manageable size sections
maybe based on two digits from the public address because as it is 200gb of data needs to be scanned by
20,000 miners each time to add a new transaction (This is madness) so they can check that the wallet has
the money to spend.
Old archived transactions complete with HASH in the headers belong in read only databases that are distributed between
a few hundred servers and not 20,000 like we have now. Slave nodes (19,000) can then request totals and not the whole history
for any wallet for up to a month ago from these servers and it will work fast because the answer would be cashed and ready to send back.
This alone would bring the live block size down to say 10gb and little intel I3 machines could deal with that and do it fast
without even breaking the process down further using two digits from the public address.
Come on guys, this is not rocket science and this PoW needs to go in the bin BIG TIME because
having to price data in bytes is just plain stupid these days.