Let's jump 2 steps ahead of them now:---
On top of diluting your sorry asses and grabbing power from the miners while centralizing Bitcoin overnight there's gonna be another game coming.
Once this split goes well and all the monkeys are so happy then they'll give the monkeys another split. They'll split Bitcoin multiple times.
Now here's the game. They know, unlike you, that this splitting is literally fiat 2.0 and they are diluting everyone including themselves so they'll want to take most of that supply off the market.
But how do you do that if you have say 3 different Bitcoin chains?
3 card Monte.
They'll fool all you dipshits into thinking only one of the chains will survive while the others will die and successfully get the large majority to dump the chain they'll actually push and strand everyone on a chain that's gonna die, and as a result they'll own 90%+ of the legit surviving Bitcoin chain.
You don't stand a chance at knowing which chain this will be!
Welcome to Wall Street, muppets, did you really think you were the next big shits of finance! Hahaha!
It somehow makes sense, however there are some flaws in your post, stuff that I don't see you to mention:
1. The post you are quoting is from 2016, at that time no Coin had SegWit working. Starting from May 10, LTC has SegWit working flawless. I know, LTC doesn't have the number of transactions BTC, but still, it works.
2. Even if the split happens, so what, we will have a COIN, not an ALTCOIN, we will use for small/medium volume FAST transactions, and another COIN, not ALTCOIN, we will use for value storage. Basically, one will be crypto $, another one crypto gold.
3. The fact that SegWit is being implemented for a long period is good as well, most worst case scenario exist and they are debated and this is also GOOD!
4. Worst case scenario - BTC splits in 4 chains. We will have coins on all of them. How to know which one to hold? Well, if you are not from the future, than you can't possibly know what price every coin will have tomorrow, but you know the price at this moment. Which one will be better? Well, one will be useful for some tasks, the other coins will have their particular use.
5. Which one to hold? Well, you have 1-4 decentralized, fair, proof-of-work crypto currencies. Just hold all of them and mine whatever you like more and exchange it for whatever you like the most, just convert same amount from every coin (if you need 1000$, 250$ worth of each coin assuming there are 4).
6. I think nobody can know what will be tomorrow, I believe that your assumption has zero solid evidence, going from one personal opinion to another.
7. Bitcoin price on 9th of August 2016 was 585$, today it is 2257$ on BTC-E, even bigger on other exchanges, this is 11 days before the countdown timer.
8. 1 BTC will always be 1 BTC (at least
).