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RE: Your Votes Will Be More Powerful With Hard Fork 19 - And You’d Better Be Careful With Them!
Can someone explain to me why there are so many hardforks? Im not experienced in cryptos, but always thought a "hardfork" is a very serious and contraproductive thing? (which might lead to a chainsplit)?
Hardforks are OK when the whole community agrees to them. In this case, the witness / development community has come together 19 times to make significant coding improvements.
A few other major ones were: Restructuring the reward pool (HF17) & reducing the amount of Power Down Time from 108 weeks to 13 weeks (not sure what number this was)
If a hard fork happens between two groups who both disagree strongly - THEN it's a disaster. For example, that is why we now have Ethereum Classic (ETC) and Ethereum (ETH) - even then, both blockchains survived and are now thriving, so maybe it wasn't such a bad thing.