Almost worth hiring a PI for this.Good call!
I remember he had the Europe and US trademark for Bitcoin and there was talk that he was selling them. But I didn't care enough at the time to keep up with it.
The way it is I'd say China will keep the long Bitcoin chain and the bankers will take the short chain and immediately scale to 8-20MB plus add some wallet functionality, new PoW algo and maybe some PoS scheme to sweeten the pipe dream.
With small blocks the Chinese will need to employ sidechains, segwit, LN, etc which is why Blockstream is taking out patents.
When people hear they'll get double the BTC they'll forget about blockchain immutability, not realizing that this is nothing more than inflation and a loss of your net worth by 50%. Welcome to digital fiat [which I predicted in 2013].
Ethereum just became the first digital fiat by doubling the amount of ether in circulation. 100% inflation with manipulation to prop up the price to create the illusion of new wealth to get the muppets cheering and begging for a Bitcoin split.