You sound like you've chugged a nice big cup of Kore Koolaid. "Blindly increasing blocksize", LOL where were you when the BTC blocks were full, the mempool was giant, and people were paying $10 in fees on a $20 transaction? And "nowhere near enough transaction volume", a new coin is supposed to magically just use its excess capacity? I suppose having 24 transactions per second (BCH) capability instead of 3 per second (BTC Kore) means nothing to you? How about 1500x lower fees? It's hard to debate that BCH is not technically superior to BTC. And Segwit is crap - the spam transactions stopped so it sort of works but has created less than 10% capacity increase for BTC. Lightning doesn't even exist and won't work. And when that spam kicks up again in late October...
People aren't adopting BCH that fast but that could change in a heartbeat when the SHTF with btc1/Segwit2x and Kore 1x... It's almost like the market is completely clueless to the potentially giant trainwreck that is only a few weeks away... from what I can tell despite the Kore FUD (Lukejr says Garzik is going to JAIL LOL) and massive Kore troll campaigns, 95% of hashpower is behind 2x, so Kore is basically fired. Garzik looks like a complete corporate/government tool so this doesn't seem good either. Then we'll have all of the replays, exchange labeling fiascoes, and hard fork address confusion.
{off to buy some BCH}
You are bashing the team of brilliant minds that built bitcoin and wrote 99.99% of code in your Bitcoin C(r)ash fork.
The 2X is nothing but attempt to steal Bitcoin entirely by stealing the client code access. The powers behind it figured that it's far easier and million times cheaper to gain control over Bitcoin via sabotage (buying out Garzik and few others), then it is with monopolizing mining power or simply buying up coins.
Trust me, the Core (or "Kore" as you spell it for some reason) know better what solutions to apply for the scaling problem, which is alleviated for now with segwit anyway. Segwit, of course is an engineering solution to the problem (one of many that will follow), not a trivial block increase. And 2X as well as Cash or any other fork "teams" have never been about long term future of Bitcoin or clever engineering in general. They were always about politics and attempts to gain power.
No. The current Kore team has very few of the original members who wrote 99% of the code. The current Kore team is the people who ousted the finest devs from Bitcoin development (Satoshi, Gavin, Hearn, Garzik, etc.) with vicious trolling tactics and a cult-like devotion to small blocks and Segwit. In particular Maxwell is a nasty sort of guy - I won't deny that he's a good coder but he is absolutely toxic to the entire scene. Look at my username, I used to be a Kore minion myself, buying in to all of these R3KT campaigns full of personal attacks on devs who didn't tow the Kore party line. Now I read the works of "dissidents" who challenge Segwit/Lightning/small blocks 4ever propaganda, and it's crystal clear how short-sighted and simply wrong these Blockstreamers are.
I agree that 2x is a corporate takeover, why do you think I'm such a Bitcoin Cash fan? When an open source project gets corrupted by bad people with an inability to make good decisions, it gets forked and improved on by a fresh set of people with renewed idealism. That's the history of open source.