Blog Post: The Opposite of a Fork is a Spoon

Blog Post: The Opposite of a Fork is a Spoon
What’s happening BlockIdols fans!

So we noticed that some of you weren’t happy with the fork of NuBlockIdols from the existing BlockIdols sidechain. When we say “weren’t happy”, we mean “tanked the price of both tokens”. We thought that NuBlockIdols would give a new audience the new virtual idol singers they wanted, while maintaining the original chain as BlockIdolsClassic would allow existing fans to hodl their investment in characters they have created and created content with in song, animation, VR, 3D printing and holography.

But this turned out to be one of those times where trying to please everyone has pleased no-one. In fact it has given our hodlers and fans a sad for the ages. Existing BlockIdols producers wanted access to the new hotness on the new chain, and NuBlockIdols early adopters wanted access to the great existing BlockIdols audience, community and creations. A few whales on either side dumped their tokens and that started a run.

So here’s what we’re going to do.

Firstly we’re going to apologize. We’re sorry, we weren’t trying to cheapen anyone’s work, deny anyone the resources they craved or depreciate anyone’s tokens. We wanted to create more than twice as much value but instead we made less than half as much. We’ve learnt our lesson - this didn’t work and we’re going to make it better. We are nothing without our community. As Gary said when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for the second time, “Thanks, we couldn’t have done it without you all”.

Secondly we’re going to move any NuBlockIdols tokens you’ve actually minted and made content to back onto the original BlockIdols chain. This doesn’t reverse the fork of NuBlockIdols from BlockIdolsClassic at the chain level, it’s not a join. Instead of combining the chains it bring the content of the two chains into closer synchronisation by copying any active tokens and content hashes from the new chain to the classic one. We’re calling it a spoon (as in spooning).

Thirdly and finally we’re salting the earth on the new chain to prevent people wasting resources voting on it any more. We all have better things to do than pretend this worked, and we don’t want anyone to be left on a chain that soon only Blockopticon will be watching.

What else is left to say? Whatever it is the best way to say it is with a new BlockIdols virtual idol singer track, so for the next week the rewards are doubled on any new songs that feature both BlockIdols and NuBlockIdols singers in harmony!


In 2014 a wired article covered the fork of a popular open source project / coding tool
What project forked?
What was the exact date of the fork?
What was the name of the other fork?
What date was the project spooned (merged) back together?