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Arent they prepaeing to do the same thing as the "bitcoin" and "bitcoin cash" forks?

Basically a dispute that allowed to sell the same bitcoin twice?

Here you potentially have a way to sell the same eth tokens few times. Revolutionary!

With Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash (and Ethereum and Ethereum Classic), it's no different from a demerger from the perspective of a company shareholder. You own a greater number of shares because the company has split in two, but they are not the same shares. They are shares in different companies that have the same origin but will go in different directions. Same with those currencies. The current version of Ethereum works a bit differently, as explained elsewhere in this comment section.

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