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You can easily make rpowerscoin. But it won’t be bitcoin. And its existence will have negligible impact on bitcoin.

There have been 100,000 clones of bitcoin (according to someone who claimed to have counted)but none are genuinely successful. Even forks if bitcoin fail despite spending millions on propaganda.

Think there might be a reason?




Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash have already surpassed bitcoin in transaction throughput. If anyone has spent millions on propaganda it is the people pushing the second layer on bitcoin's crippled transaction throughput.


I think that can be adequately explained by this entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage.




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