«If you ask any of the developers, they will
typically want to see 18 months or two years lead time, for something with as wide an
impact on all the software and hardware out there as a hard fork,» Blockstream co-founder and Hashcash inventor Dr. Adam Back noted during a Q&A session.And if the chain does split into different networks and
currencies — one following the current Bitcoin protocol and one adopting the hard fork — the question becomes which of the two gets to use the name «Bitcoin.»