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RE: Bitcoin is Responsible for California's Poor Air Quality (!?)
#5: Once Bitcoin reaches the 21 million BTC mark, it switches from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake system.
BTC is switching to a PoS coin? Where did you get that information?
Ooooph! Good catch, that's my bad. I read it somewhere, and now I can't find the source. I am pretty new to this, so I probably just mixed it up. :) feeling sheepish, I can't find it again.
BTC wont switch to PoS...
You might have been thinking about ETH... which is supposto switch with a hard fork soon.
That's probably exactly what I read! Metropolis, right?
Do you know much about it? Are there going to be new coins created like with Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash or does anyone know?
Yep, Metropolis hard fork.
Technically all coins can split on an update. All that is required is enough people refusing to upgrade to the next patch, and pow, new coin... or, if enough people just decide to go a different direction, like with the hack way back when on ETH, which forked the coin ETC.
Its hard to say what will happen until the day after the fork really... but, that's just what I think.