You can't do that unless all the miners are on board with the fork. This fork has shown that any fork of bitcoin will fail unless all the miners go along with it. At the moment, it appears to be easier to launch a new coin. I fully expect this to be a dead cat bounce, and we should find new lows in the coming days.
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Well, that was my theory. BTC knows it has problems, it sees other coins closing in to fix them like ZenCash, and so it creates its own replacement to resolve the problems.
I'm not sure how things will play out of course, but certain coins will always beat out others based on value in the market. Will BTC always be the top dog? I don't think it will.
I disagree with you on BTC but we will see. Bitcoin has the longest blockchain, the most hashing power by far, the longest transaction history, and therefore the most secure blockchain, and it's also the most trusted because of the network effect, it has been flawless in the trust aspect since it's creation. There same isn't true of Ethereum, so Ethereum stands no chance at ever beating Bitcoin. No one else is even close.
I just worry about the transaction speed. It is slow.