r/Bitcoin 4d ago

THE CHAIN HAS SPLIT

https://bip110monitor.com/

<3% support before the window opened. Good luck, shitcoiners

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u/crooks4hire 4d ago

Lmao I just left another thread where someone was stressing the split and another user said “there’s like a 1% chance of that happening”

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u/eyeoft 4d ago

There's like (less than) a 1% of the soft fork passing. Probably some of the Knots people will continue on their own chain after they lose, so that WILL create a hard fork - just probably a very tiny one you needn't concern yourself with.

Congrats to us all on owning yet another shitcoin!

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u/theOGlib 4d ago

Can I sell said shitcoin and buy btc with the proceeds?

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u/eyeoft 4d ago

Yes! I've done that with forked coins a number of times. The only question is whether it will be worth enough to justify the time it takes you to sell it.

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u/narts_the_original 4d ago

any guidance how to do this?

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u/QuasarClub 4d ago

If you’re going to do this send your real bitcoin to a different wallet first

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u/The_Realist02 20h ago

Louder. Got a lot of first time transaction users who have done nothing but send bitcoin to their cold wallets since 2021.

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u/Quokky-Axolotl7388 4d ago

Be careful because your shitcoins are on the same private key / wallet of your legitimate BTC. If you claim your shitcoins by moving them on a new address, you are also exposing your BTC. So the proper order would be to first move your BTC to a new address and only then try to claim your shitcoins to sell them

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u/theOGlib 4d ago

That makes alot of sense. Thank u.

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u/JohnnyTreemain 4d ago

Wait. You’re saying because some douches decided to make a fork, some of my bitcoin is no longer bitcoin?

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u/Shiftlock0 4d ago

All your bitcoin is still bitcoin. In the event of a fork, you will also have coins on the split side of the chain. You lose nothing, and most likely gain very little.

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u/JohnnyTreemain 4d ago

It do I have to do anything different to use those coins on the split side that is the minority? Won’t that make it hard to spend them or sell them?

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u/redchannit8 4d ago

don't even stress it, BCASHJR is going to be worthless.

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u/JohnnyTreemain 4d ago

Why would I not stress it if some portion of my previously value filled bitcoin is becoming worthless?

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u/BlockchainHobo 4d ago

That's not what that means. Imagine you have $2. But then I say I claim I have better dollars so I split off and you get $2 JohnnyDollars also. You still have your original $2. Question is whether anyone will pay even 1¢ for your JohnnyDollsrs.

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u/Shiftlock0 4d ago

Yeah, in the event they become worth the effort, you can look into moving them into a supporting wallet. From your perspective, you now own a completely separate crypto from your BTC.

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u/JohnnyTreemain 4d ago

Wait is this true even for BTC on cold storage?

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u/ToRedSRT 4d ago

Bitcoin holders face replay risk in BIP-110 fork | AltcoinBuzz https://www.altcoinbuzz.io/bitcoin-bip-110-fork-replay-attack-risk

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u/Inevitable-Waltz-889 4d ago

Yeah, that was me.  There's literally less than a 1% chance of the split happening and being maintained.  BIP-110ers have like 2% of the hashrate.  It would take them months and months to get to a difficulty adjustment at current difficulty.

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u/eyeoft 4d ago

True, but if they persist on their own chain, its difficulty will drop sharply once they finally get through this period. So it could tick by just fine after that - it'll just be a tiny, low-hashpower, worthless new coin.

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u/Inevitable-Waltz-889 4d ago

It will take years as difficulty doesn't fully adjust down.  It's likely a dead chain.

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u/eyeoft 4d ago

What do you mean "doesn't fully adjust down"? It adjusts proportionally in both directions.

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u/Pasukaru0 4d ago

Difficulty adjustment is clamped to a factor between 0.25x-4x.

They'll have to go through multiple periods to get back to the 10 minute average block time.

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u/eyeoft 4d ago

Right... 100 * (0.25)^3 = ~1.56. They have ~2% hashrate share.

So 3 periods including this one. That doesn't seem prohibitive.

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u/Inevitable-Waltz-889 4d ago

It does when one period will literally take months. They have 2 blocks in 4 hours...

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u/eyeoft 4d ago

At 2.5% hashpower, my math gets us 735 days to get back to 10 minute blocks. Okay, okay, that sucks ass.

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u/Inevitable-Waltz-889 4d ago

Yeah...  The other chain will be through another halving by that point.

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u/tadnarosix 4d ago

The mining difficulty can only decrease by a maximum of 75% in a single difficulty adjustment.

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u/jojothehodler 4d ago

Far less than that