I can see a BCH split sometime this year with the amount of disagreements going off though
Hmm. So are you saying that BCH:
1) is tightly controlled by a centralized cabal; or
2) splintering in fractious discord?
It can't be both. Pick a narrative and stick with it, willya?
1- Both Bcash has a following of gullible people that believe everything that some claim like CSW, Ver etc because they don't have the technical knowledge to know any different so "trust" in someone that appears very smart
2- But as more changes are happening there is more friction being created as the changes are being forced through a HF with a either upgrade or f##k off approach and the smarter ones are starting to speak out and will eventually leave the cartel by eather forking off again or going back to BTC
3- While BTC is using a much safer SF method where if you agree with changes you can upgrade without issues and if you do not agree and don't upgrade you won't be forced off the network and everything will run just as before
OG btc was hijacked, using node exploit they stole the Bitcoin name and brand by segwetters, the thing is they call themselves btc Maximilists but always refer to using ltc as a payment method...hmmm
maybe they are really litecoiners that hijacked btc.
2- segwet is a HF.
Everything you said at point 2 is your answer for Bitcoin cash being here today....we were not happy with the HF on og btc,
"so the smarter ones are starting to speak out and will eventually leave the cartel(blockstream) by either forking off again or going back to BTC "via BCH.
3- btc is not using a safer SF , stop lying...it is a HF
If you dont update everything runs like before ,slow and expensive.if you want cheaper and faster tx on btc segwet you have to
update and more.
1. Blockstream did not invent lightning and do not control the protocol layer
Blockstream does not have any commit access to any full node/wallet repos not even the core one all they can do is submit a BIP with supporting code and hope it gets enough interest to be accepted
2. No segwit is a SF you can use any earlier client even one from a few years ago without segwit and it will still stay on the BTC chain
Hell you could even fork off the latest core client and remove all segwit and it would still follow the BTC chain but why go to that extreme when you can simply turn off segwit in the config file under 0.16.0 thus option was not available under 0.15.x because segwit was not the default format and you had to OPT IN
Or use knots that does not use segwit by default yet and remains in consensus with the BTC chain
3. And again you don't have to upgrade yes it costs more on legacy due to having a lower WU but that's a user option not a forced option
