And also only the so called economic nodes actually have any power over the protocol. So if they spin up a bunch of sybils and make it look like they have consensus but the economic nodes were never onboard it's still a contentious chain split.
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not to my understanding:
the contentious, soft-fork chain-split would have to: 1.) last a while; then 2.) coins would have to be listed for trading then 3.) the market would eventually pick *the winner*; 4.) then hash rate would follow the more lucrative coin
could also imagine polymarket playing this role rather than trading platforms
The more lucrative coin is the one that people want to receive in exchange for something else, and these transactions are validated by "economic nodes".