remember that one of the two chain will be an altcoin, just that the other will be the one used by everyone else, also this happened with some alt, like ETH, did eth lose its value? no...
A very convenient position
That is, that the blockchain which should prevail will be a genuine Bitcoin while the other which succumbs will be an impostor, an altcoin. The main issue with this reasoning is that you don't know in advance which one will win and which one will lose. Further, you don't take into account the possibility that any of the competing blockchains may not have an overwhelming advantage over the rest of the pack, so things might get very complicated in respect to which blockchain is going to come out the winner. Apart from that, if Jihancoin succeeds, will you use it yourself?
which win will not matter much as long as you don't move your coin before the split you are safe regardless of what it happen, and your coins will likely be the one of the new main chain
Those who prefer to sit on the fence are usually the ones who got stripped most
It is the same as in war, when a country which doesn't want to side with any belligerent party may eventually end up invaded and split by every belligerent (Switzerland had been quite close to that in WWII). More specifically, you assume that you won't lose anything if you just stick to a "wait and see" approach without taking any action, while, in fact, you may be the one losing most since people may start actively dumping their coins if the hard fork happens for real and a dumping war quickly ensues. They would likely end up with at least some fiat on hands, while you may end up with just a pile of shitcoins worth nothing
not really a good comparison, here it's better to not do anything with your money until all this drama about the split is done, or you are at higher risk to lose everythign if you begin to move your coins
besides we can not do anything, unless you are a miners you can't really express your opinion on what you want it's better, you can onyl vote as a mienrs here
I strongly disagree with this approach
But I certainly understand people like you who are passive in their attitude and prefer just to hope for the best instead of actually doing something to get there. In this case, specifically, you can sell your bitcoins (some part thereof), and if you sold them a week ago, you would have already saved like 400 dollars per bitcoin. You could have bought altcoins (as I bought some lites). Simply put, I disagree that there is nothing what you or me, or we can do. Remember that the absence of proof is not the proof of absence. In other words, if we don't know what to do, it doesn't in the least mean that there is nothing what we can do. It is no more than just our lack of knowledge. And even this lack of knowledge itself is not set in stone, and there are certainly ways to fill this void even though we might not be aware of these ways at this point
ah well i can agree that selling now or before, maybe was a good move for two reasons, one because it would give you some profit, the other because you would secure your bitcoin on the exchange, in case they decide to act strange and choose another fork
but i don't like trading, i prefer to hold until i have my target reached, not to dump of course but to use more my coins, also i don't want to expose much my cold storage by selling now and buying again, not worth the risk for now
