Let's say the Rothschilds created Bitcoin, maybe not invented it, but funded its development. They do it so they have a "pre mine" of Satoshi's 1M BTC. They resurrect Satoshi's identity, and "come out" to push a fork that degrades anonymity and self sovereignty There is a revolt by hodlers, the majority of the public will accept the fake-coin slop not knowing the technical details. The question I have is; Who wins the fight? The Rothschilds have coin on both forks, they also have access to unlimited Fiat. They can manipulate markets on both chains, one by selling off the 1M reap coins, injecting fake price action, and influence corporations and ETFs to sell the "old chain". This causes the fiat price of the original chain to drop dramatically against their compromised fork. The "public" will see hodlers as crazy "conspiracy" lunatics, wait for the price action on the two chains to "settle" and move forward on whichever chain has higher value. Now the damage is done, the miners favor the higher price chain, and the change is locked in indefinately within a few weeks. The real hodlers will still exchange with the original chain, but the price will be supressed indefinately through their open market manipulation, and having failed selection by the miners. The only defense is free speech. This is why nostr + bitcoin are the true path.

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There's a group of bcash people that'd likely argue this has already played out. If you take the assumption it has then exploring bcash price now would be a good case study. I think their ability to manipulate both economically and psychologically would allow them to suppress economic growth of non-controlled forks. I personally think their wider control of capital markets give them wealth control for a long, likely longer than my lifespan, time but it at least helps set a function of applying a clock to that control. That's assuming that 21m can remain a key of one of the surviving alts that have economic activity.