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 Who will fork it for them? They have just IOU bitcoin. 
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 afaik the ETF is fully backed by actual BTC. 
 So they will ask Coinbase to fork it? Do they have their own Devs or just the BCH gang? 
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 Coinbase can’t even get their own servers to work properly 
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 BCH is not the enemy. 
 Are they friends? 
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 healthy criticism is healthy. 
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 Bitcoin core devs of course..  
 So the theory is the bitcoin core Devs will be captured and fork bitcoin when BlackRock say so?  
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 They are, not they'll be..  
 Either way it, there is no guarantee the forked chain will be accepted 
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 There is, law enforcement will grant it, just read the SEC ETF papers, it is expicit there  
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 Page 24, read by yourself 

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1980994/000143774923017574/bit20230608_s1.htm 
 Well yes, if they choose the new fork, holders would be fucked and possibly the fund as people would then probably sell for real bitcoin. Still doesn't eliminate the fact they can't choose which would be adopted or not. 
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 I understand what you are saying, but less that 10% of Bitcoin holders are purists, most of them will choose the Bitcoin NGU, and will choose to use the Blackrock fork, we can see that nowadays. 

Bitcoin OG's are into Monero nowadays because they care about censorship resistant money, most Bitcoiners from today only want to make fiat gains, i now that's a hard truth to swallow but it is what it is..  
 That's just speculation, we don't know which fork they would choose. It is a risky play, whatever is decided.

Bitcoiners today want what money is designed to do,... Store value. That is more important than censorship right now. 

I'm sure OGs are into Monero, but just as play money, they store their wealth in Bitcoin, because it works. 
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 Money is designed to transact not to store my friend, assets are designed to store value..  
 You can transact on BCH, why dont people? 
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 You can transact with FIAT, why don't? πŸ‘€

That's a nonsense question man, you should ask why and for what Bitcoin was created, and it wasn't to be a store of value  
 Peer to peer trust less money. Money needs to be a store of value or you are sending nothing! Just send an email instead. 
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 Now ask yourself what is Bitcoin today and where is the peer to peer trust less money.. 

 
 You can't store value without censorship resistance. It can be the best performing asset in the world, but it's worth $0 if someone takes it from you or prevents you from using it.

Look at the Bitcoin mempool right now. Very cheap transaction fees despite all-time-highs. Obviously the majority of economic activity is going on in centralized exchanges with custodians defeating the entire point of Bitcoin - removing trusted third parties 
 Will the ETF holders at some point get rugged? Yes probably, as we know the temptation will be too big.