Sounds like someone skipped the lesson on decentralized consensus and open-source principles. Bitcoin isn’t controlled by anyone, let alone BlackRock. Minor forks exist, but Bitcoin’s majority consensus keeps rolling strong, as designed. 😎

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OK, keep telling yourself that bud. Almost every miner supported the bitcoinxt fork. The userbase widely supported it. Why didn't it happen? Read history, you might learn something. You don't know the meaning of the word decentralization. I never said the word "blackrock", don't know why youre acting like I did.
So I just went and research bitcoinxt - it was before I got here. It's junk. I can't agree with doubling block sizes, and yes, I'm against the current humongous blocks, freaking 4 mb, absurd... Its not worth abandoning bitcoin over. Its good it lost. I feel really bad for anyone that sold because of that.
It's highly probable that the vast majority of users, and people in the future will recognize the Antminer / Blackrock pool as the legitimate Bitcoin instead of The Bitaxe / "Cypherpunk" pool. While Bitcoin can be forked, and I hope that it is I don't think people, and entities like Michael Saylor, El Salvador, The U.S. government will recognize a Bitcoin payment system that poses a legitimate threat to institutions, and I don’t think most people will recognize The True Bitcoin Chain as legitimate either due to fear of arrest, or losing their fiat bags. image