RE: Week through Adrian's Lenses (15-21 March 2025)

I didn't even know we were planning to fork, until the chain went live

Aggroed held daily s**m Town Halls during that battle, sometimes lasting many hours. I listened through many of those hours. At some point, Blocktrades joined and only said a few words, something like: "We are working on a fork, which will be ready soon." And then he left the conversation. Maybe he said a few more words, but that's all I remember, and I remember he was very brief then. That's when the community (including Aggroed, apparently), first heard about the fork being worked on. Obviously, they didn't want to give heads up to JS about what they are doing, that's why the relative secrecy. Plus that it needed to be done quickly.

At the time, the talk was still revolving around... how do we take our chain back. In retrospect, that was impossible, after exchanges got involved.