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Socialized Costs of Hard Forks Free Money Wasnt Free 2017.08.01 18:12 UTC Free Money!!! Or Was it? Negative Externalities Positive Externalities Users More $$$ Miners More $$$ Exchanges More $$$ Price One-time vs. Permanent Costs


  1. Socialized Costs of Hard Forks Free Money Wasn’t Free

  2. 2017.08.01 18:12 UTC

  3. Free Money!!! Or Was it?

  4. Negative Externalities

  5. Positive Externalities

  6. Users More $$$

  7. Miners More $$$

  8. Exchanges More $$$

  9. Price

  10. One-time vs. Permanent Costs

  11. One-time Costs

  12. Exchanges ● Deposit and Withdrawal Halted ● Cold Storage ● Auditing of New Software ● One-time Withdrawal or Listing of New Token ● New Infrastructure

  13. Merchants and Payment Processors ● Payments Halted ● Chain Detection ● New Infrastructure

  14. Wallets ● Chain Detection ● Splitting Tools ● Possible Support for New Token

  15. Miners ● Token Switching Algorithm

  16. Users ● Cold Storage ● Exposed Public Key ● Loss of Privacy ● Regulatory Burden

  17. Permanent Costs

  18. Same Addresses

  19. Unreliable Blocks

  20. Reorg Attacks

  21. Chain Hopping Attacks

  22. Privacy Loss

  23. Replay Attacks

  24. Future Hard Forks

  25. Why Hard Forks Are Attractive ● Cleaner Altcoin Launch ● Great Code Base to Start From ● Fair Distribution ● Hacking Fiduciary Duty ● Easy Listing on Exchanges

  26. Bitcoin Gold/Bitcoin GPU

  27. Bitcoin 2x

  28. Immunization

  29. Negative Externalities

  30. Questions? @jimmysong on Twitter, Medium and Github

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