The reason they can no coexist is due to the mining.
If they keep both sharing sha256 the risk to the small chain increases majorly.
Unless one either switches or merged mining is done the POW of the minority chain is at risk.
That being said checkpoints while being centralized could protect the smaller chain....
When ASIC are in the game-the game theory of POW coin changes to the best fit.
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