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Yeah exactly.

Not sure if you realize the implication of what happens if you arm a bunch of mercenaries and then fire them and turn your backs on them.



This has already played out.

The breakaway hostile fork is now worth 2 percent of the original work.

So..nothing?


I’m pretty sure that shows that miners follow the money. They will mine whatever chain where they can sell the block reward to the highest bidder.

Anyway I don’t think reality is as simple as your last comment suggests. There was a lot going on at the time including a lot of misinformation.




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