I'm sure you have all thought of this before but I haven't. If Bitcoin is so great what's to stop a different Satoshi Angel from immaculate conception of a similar idea. Let's call it Bytecoin. Let's say Bytecoin drops next year and in 10 years is ifinirly more popular and more utilized than Bitcoin. Your Bitcoin still has value but but will h less demand for Bitcoin and more for Bytecoin it not worth as much anymore. Would it really be that difficult to copy the Bitcoin idea? It seems like real success would be whatever coin is adopted more widely. Thoughts?
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
. To convince developers to contribute to it and to maintain such a fork you would need to rewrite it, or write an entirely new protocol from scratch, so that it be way better than Bitcoin. I mean orders of magnitude better.