Yes. Wars would be smaller less frequent, we would have more exploration (looking for gold). Usa, Australian and European states would probably be more independent…. The richest man in the world would probably come from South Africa.

The whole premise is a bit wrong.. in bitcoin you can not force a hardfork. This is a big part of the beauty of it. You can hard fork but there will always be people who don’t and maintain the existing chain (by doing nothing, not updating there nodes)

Wow, we have created fractional banking but cryptographically! They will be real angry!

Ahh the old vegetable oil actually seed oil trick