Hi everyone, I have a newbie question. What is the official definition of coin community…for example ethereum community? I was curious what needs to be done to perform another hard-fork similar one that created ETC and ETH…the main argument against performing countless hard-forks and destroying the policy of immutability was…" The ethereum community is decentralized and a democracy. You cannot make major decisions like that unless the majority of the people agree to it." Is community simply a group of founders, investors and stockholders?
In principle for most coins community means all the founders, the master node holders, the miners and sometimes all the node holders.
For Bitcoin a decision to implement an improvement runs through a round of votes but ultimately is still a core team decision in the end.
In case of Ethereum, the ETH hardfork was put to the miners (when the DAO disaster happened) this was a none binding vote and the majority of the miners (master node holders) voted no, by 65% IIRC. The Ethereum founding team then made a unilateral decision to fork anyway (despite the no vote) which caused a rift in the community (for a time) and the existence of ETH Classic.
In pure principle, anyone can create a fork of any cryptocurrency, so if you wanted to fork tomorrow, you can. The key is getting support from the users (the entire community or at least the miners) and to come up with a greater value chain after the fork. If you can achieve this then your new coin ETH+ can be successful. This is not an easy, nor quick, thing to achieve though.