Go Fork Yourself – Life After a Bitcoin Hard Fork

“I assign a 0% probability that we will continue with the present proof of work function. The present proof of work function is not going to survive the year. Period. If there’s one hard prediction I’m going to make it’s going to be that.” – Dan Kaminsky Dan Kaminsky’s statement at the bitcoin conference in San Jose proved extremely controversial. While many may find it unlikely that the mining algorithm changin is a certainty, it does raise the question of what would happen to bitcoin if there were a hard forking event in the future. On March 11th, 2013 there …