Yeah, while I agree that the 2013 fork could have resulted in significantly more lost money than it did, I&#x27;m far from convinced that it would have proved catastrophic for Bitcoin.  For one thing, the idea that a Bitcoin fork would be likely to endure for anything other than ideological reasons is pretty far-fetched.  There are strong incentives for miners to be on the same side of a fork as the economic majority, and vice versa.<p>Now, in the case of a major ideological disagreement, as this block size debate has (suprisingly) turned into, I could see a lasting fork happening to the Bitcoin ecosystem.  But back in 2013, there were no such major disagreements, just a bunch of minor squabbles.<p>So yes, it could have been worse, but not <i>that</i> much worse.