This precedent setting argument ignores the fact that nobody is forcing you onto this fork, nor any future fork. You can choose to fork this time and not the next. Or to not fork this time and to fork the next. Either way, you will own whatever you had previously, but on both chains. You can sell coins on the new chain if you want and buy more on the old chain. Ultimately the free market will decide.

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>”Ultimately the free market will decide” Agree, and that’s the point I’m responding to. My view is that “the market” will value credibility of supply schedule over an absolute number of outstanding bitcoin. Maybe Matt is right that the fork would retain sufficient credibility and would ultimately win out, but I don’t think that will be on the basis of having a marginally lower supply.