there's a group forking an altcoin (bitcoin cash) come august 1st.
Pretty much. Though it is possible that in time, BC will surpass BTC in the marketplace. This is due to BC's inherent support of all the important use cases that core threw overboard in their insane Raspberry Pi fetish. If this were to come about, then BC would be Bitcoin, and legacy cripplecoin would be the alt.
Is there a way to short the BTC cash futures?
If you're outside USA, you can use ViaBTC's BCC futures tokens.
The whale would then have to decide to either use their BTC to bolster BCC market or dump their BTC to harm BTC market. They couldn't do both.
Those crooks that decided to fork into Bitcoin Cash ...
There is no crime in voluntarily treating a permissionless system as a voluntary permissionless system.
And you are 100% wrong about the motivations. At least for the majority of BC supporters. We are working towards a stronger, more capable Bitcoin.
Current premarket price of BTCC shows that price will be between 1% and 2% of Bitcoin value.
Yes. In my math, $403 is exactly between 1% and 2% of $2759.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/BTCC is not a BC equivalent.