And while many bitcoin users and investors see
previous forks as a net positive (since they were effectively airdropped free money) Lombrozo hopes something else will come out of the process.
The reason that this hardfork has gathered so much attention is because
unlike previous forks (Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold), both of the coins in this fork want to be the «Bitcoin».
With previous forks users have been enticed by the lure of free equivalent coins to their BTC holdings when the blockchain splits.
While the group behind the effort has secured the support of a number of startups and mining pools, they argue there's not much of a difference in the support as compared to
previous forks.
If a new fork in November occurs and we get Bitcoin2x, we'll have four «main» Bitcoins, not counting all
the previous forks like Litecoin, Dash, ZCash, Bitcoin Unlimited, etc..
The delay follows a suggestion made by ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, who recommended in a core developer discussion today that the platform should be conservative relative to
previous forks.
The previous forks of bitcoin did really great in the market with the support for the GPU mining and the bitcoin cash surged last month, pushing the bitcoin and its family up to the believable zone which makes us believe the positive vibes about the next super bitcoin fork coming.
Unofficial twitter polls show approximately 50/50 division of supporters and opponents to the initiative, as
the previous fork eventually broke Ethereum into two warring networks.
Both of the two
previous forks were a result of relatively minor squabbles within the crypto community.
That process is slowly occurring with Bitcoin Gold,
the previous fork of the network which is nonetheless gaining momentum on markets.