#1. Lumber and firewood are two completely different things. Many forms of lumber contain arsenic based poisons intended to kill termites. These types of lumber cannot be burned as firewood without exposing people to arsenic fumes that could be harmful to their health. In that sense it is inaccurate to use the terms lumber and firewood interchangeably. The market value and price trends of lumber and firewood are also completely different due to these reasons.
So are gasoline and diesel but you can see that since they derive from the same thing, oil, and in our case trees the less demand from one would trigger enough cheap oversupply for the other, all companies that deal with that would either have to fire their staff or try to refocus their activities, supply and demand, the trees are still there, the demand for lumber is not, what are you going to do?
Look at current market trends for gold and silver. Central banks owning the vast majority of good and silver in the world, maing it easy for them to set prices due to their high holdings and liquidity.
The same precedent applies to bitcoin. Hedge funds and large institutional speculators current hold the majority of bitcoins and liquidity, also making it easy for them to set market prices.
No, they do not.
The Central Bank of Russia can't freeze my gold, it can't print 100 billion tons if it wants, and can't shut down the gold trade.
See the differences between a nationally controlled currency and an internationally traded asset?
If el salvador forked their own distribution of bitcoin and blocked it so that wallstreet and hedge funds could not conceivably own a large majority of coins to influence market prices. Then perhaps you might see the potential for price trends being different in contrast to bitcoin's current price history.
What would stop people in Salvador from selling their coins to these infamous Wallstreet investors?
Or do you want to put a limit to the number of coins each one is allowed to sell and to the persons he is allowed to do so?
Oh wait, but just above we were talking about incentivizing investors to buy SalvadorCoin and now we talk about restricting them, common, Hydrogen, you can do better!
In short, one motive behind forking bitcoin would be to eliminate price interference caused by large speculators and institutional investors.
In practice, this could be impossible.
Finally!