Editing Coin archiving (section)

== Use-case 5: Hard-forking away from drama ==

Occasionally teams in the blockchain space experience a dead-lock where nobody can agree on the exact technical vision going forwards.

In this case, if we scan in a blockchain into Ethereum it provides the market a simple mechanism for hard forking away from the original currency.

It is possible to provide full backwards compatibility with the original currency. In this case, virtual transactions that occur on Ethereum would be made 100% compatible with transactions occurring on the real asset.

You would then have logic to detect whether a transaction first occurred on the Ethereum “fork” or on the real asset and after a certain period of economic activity on the Ethereum fork you can stop requiring this backwards compatibility - in which case its a hard-fork.

This would probably require adding some kind of settlement phase to the virtual coin and allow SPV-proofs to be given from the real asset. You would also have to keep the virtual coin in-sync with all transactions and block header activity happening on the real asset so its potentially a burden.

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