Self custody for sure. To my understanding: The "contentiousness" has to be significantly enough for the chain split to last, so that both coins are listed at exchanges - with a market developing. This is when the concept of economic notes matters: the market decides which coin is more valuable, it ...

You say "overwhelming consensus", but by whom? If most miners chose 444, non compliant blocks would be discarded by them, and your core node would go with the longest chain, no? If that was the case you would need something like a URSF to force a split, right? I want the tokens or a prediction mar...