Yeah, we obviously agree that two different protocols are different protocols.<p>I&#x27;m not saying pre-fork and post-fork bitcoin are equivalent, or the same protocol version. That&#x27;s a strawman. the term &quot;Bitcoin&quot; is obviously different from &quot;ECMAScript 5&#x2F;6&quot; and &quot;HTTP 1.1&#x2F;2.0&quot; in that it&#x27;s not a version of a protocol&#x2F;standard.  Bitcoin is a term for the overarching <i>thing</i>, just like &quot;Javascript&quot; and &quot;HTTP&quot; are overarching terms for those, encompassing multiple standards etc.<p>Again, &quot;altcoin&quot; already has a term unrelated to protocol. &quot;altcoin&quot; means a cryptocurrency that is not closely related to bitcoin.<p>You&#x27;re talking strictly about protocols and versions there (which, btw, bitcoin should just version its protocols), but that&#x27;s not what &quot;Bitcoin&quot; means to the common man.<p>You&#x27;re making my argument for me by comparing &quot;HTTP 2.0 isn&#x27;t HTTP 1.1&quot;, but they&#x27;re both HTTP, not gopher or ftp.