You know nothing about me and it shows.
Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper is an excellent read. It gives a really good history of the first 5-6 years as it came out in 2016. It’s covers the pre-history with projects like HashCash that paved the way for white paper. Then the early days of Satoshi posting on the the bitcoin forum, Hal Finney, the Silk Road, Mount GOX, the Winklevos twins, Wences Casares, Charlie Shrem, Roger Ver. The Bitlicense in New York. All really interesting stuff and key characters that will go down in Bitcoin History.
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-Reinvent-ebook/dp/B01D8KFX9Q
Yes they could but it would create a fork and a new coin with that supply schedule. Bitcoin would continue to exist unaffected. Many forks have happened over the years. BCH is one of them.
It’s up to the market to decide if they value the new coin. So far nothing has really challenged Bitcoin effectively.
You should probably learn about how the thing your investing in works. I suggest the book “Inventing Bitcoin” as good primer in the technology and it’s significance.
https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Bitcoin-Technology-Decentralized-Explained-ebook/dp/B07MWXRWNB
The best explanation I’ve read is the short book called Inventing Bitcoin, which appears to be from on kindle right now
https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Bitcoin-Technology-Decentralized-Explained-ebook/dp/B07MWXRWNB/
First thing that comes to mind for me is the fact that the difficulty of mining is automatically adjusted in order to ensure it remains difficult to mine. Nobody can ever buy so much computing power that they become king shit of fuck mountain for longer than, what, two weeks? That's how often difficulty is adjusted.
I'm not a master of crypto currency and bitcoin, etc. but what I just described is reasonably accurate, and more to the point, it's pretty basic bitcoin knowledge. I think that's why you're just getting told that you don't know what's up and should start reading the linked resources.
An excellent, no bullshit, not too technical book is Yan Pritzker's Inventing Bitcoin . If you're really interested, read that.
And, ya know, ask yourself, "Did I just blow this $1. 2T market cap crypto currency wide open with my simple question?" No, of course you didn't. Access some humility and read the 101 material.
Sounds like you’re not super familiar with how the whole thing works. I highly recommend this fairly short book a friend of mine wrote .. it’s a really great proper intro with very light technical details and no fluff.
Has less to do with the technical, but I always like suggesting the book "Digital Gold" to people that ask about bitcoin/blockchain etc... it's free via Amazon Kindle if you have an Amazon Prime account.
Other than that, Nick Szabo and his enumerated blog is a good source for technical, along with Andreas Antonopoulos.
I would recommend the book Bitcoin for the Befuddled (link: https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Befuddled-Conrad-Barski-ebook/dp/B00PYXN5N2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515072148&sr=8-1&keywords=bitcoin+for+befuddled).
It is a straightforward explanation of the basics of bitcoin. It helped me a lot in understanding what exactly bitcoin and blockchain are and how they are used. After reading the book you will be able to understand finer details explored in other articles.