Forking is not a problem. It's users voting with their feet.
The possibility of forking is a necessary deterrent in cryptonetwork governance.
If the maintainers of a network become compromised or get coopted by special interests, the collective owners of the network(the holders of the cryptocurrency) have the right to exit.
The right to exit is a necessary part of governance.
First of all, no. Global, trustless coordination is a hard problem and is not necessarily illegal.
Second, legality is subjective around the world. It is currently illegal in the US to gamble online, for some reason, even though casinos and lotteries are a thing.
It is illegal in many countries to transfer a certain amount of money out of the country, for some reason.
Certain sexualities are illegal in quite a few countries.
Most people who are even a little bit serious about working/investing in crypto, are well aware of this and have been saying this for the past few years.
Inb4 "you're not investing, you're speculating/gambling". I'm aware.
Inb4 "blockchain is a slower database". Again, I'm aware.
Yeah definitely doesn't square with my experience. My first 3 years as a software engineer was filled with late nights at the office, horrendous office politics and an extreme amount of stress. Got so bad I started to get random heart palpitations.
Not that everyday was like this of course, but these conditions were happening more often than not.
Sure, some of it was due to impostor syndrome and competitiveness between team members but most of it was just the environment
Decentralization. Anyone can run their own node of the software making it resistant to censorship, malicious control by the devs themselves or a third party.
Augur.casino runs their own node of Augur but runs it on IPFS, allowing others to connect to it.
Provides convenience if a user doesn't care about decentralization.
Just btw, I'm not affiliated with augur or augur.casino or any of these projects. I just find them interesting