Great point. And this only gets more messy as more things like LN come online. 

I doubt it will be a fork anyways... the situation is much more complicated than it was in 2017.... in the pre-LN era.

If we have a fork now, imagine how people will react and start closing LN channels, liquidity will became a mess, mempool full of shit, it will be quite some chaos.

DarthCoin

Thanks for the clarification. I should have had option one be "Accept coins on original chain."

However, I suspect many bitcoiners would choose to accept coins on the new chain. Especially if the change promulgated by the forkers was a change already discussed by the bitcoin community. The danger I see here is in the precedent it sets, not necessarily in the coin it creates.

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Bitcoin Fork Hypothetical

Scoresby

Thanks for the clarification. I should have had option one be "Accept coins on original chain."

However, I suspect many bitcoiners would choose to accept coins on the new chain. Especially if the change promulgated by the forkers was a change already discussed by the bitcoin community. The danger I see here is in the precedent it sets, not necessarily in the coin it creates. 