<p>Forks of both are equally hard. What you're describing as "Ethereum forks" are actually tokens/smart-contracts that run on the Ethereum network, which isn't very common on Bitcoin (but there's Omni)</p>

<p>EDIT: Remved Rootstock as per darosior's clarification. Its only to relation to Bitcoin is that it uses merged mining, just like Namecoin.</p>

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Rootstock is not on the Bitcoin network.
Antoine Poinsot
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@darosior Right, thanks.
MCCCS
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I think it's also useful to mention that the reason why they are some many Ethereum-based tokens is that Ethereum was designed specifically for that purpose.
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MCCCS
<p>There are a dozen of projects based on Ethereum but very few based on the Bitcoin network. Why is this?</p>

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I'd like to point out that, technically, a fork is as difficult as it is modifying the source code of the project involved. Anyway, what makes a fork successful is the amount of adoption it manages to reach. So, if you want to measure the "difficulty" of a fork in terms of adoption, then we can say bitcoin forks struggle because they're overshadowed by the enormous popularity of bitcoin itself.
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Why is creating a bitcoin fork very difficult and a Ethereum fork easy?
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# Why is creating a bitcoin fork very difficult and a Ethereum fork easy?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-05-08)

There are a dozen of projects based on Ethereum but very few based on the Bitcoin network. Why is this?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I'd like to point out that, technically, a fork is as difficult as it is modifying the source code of the project involved. Anyway, what makes a fork successful is the amount of adoption it manages to reach. So, if you want to measure the "difficulty" of a fork in terms of adoption, then we can say bitcoin forks struggle because they're overshadowed by the enormous popularity of bitcoin itself.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2020-05-08. Score: 1

Forks of both are equally hard. What you're describing as "Ethereum forks" are actually tokens/smart-contracts that run on the Ethereum network, which isn't very common on Bitcoin (but there's Omni)

EDIT: Remved Rootstock as per darosior's clarification. Its only to relation to Bitcoin is that it uses merged mining, just like Namecoin.

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: Rootstock is not on the Bitcoin network.  
> **username_2**: @darosior Right, thanks.  
> **username_4**: I think it's also useful to mention that the reason why they are some many Ethereum-based tokens is that Ethereum was designed specifically for that purpose.  

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