And the winner is...
BTCC with 1 minute blocks and 8 MB max blocksize.
To split or not to split?
When two dogs fight over a bone, the third one will run away with it... This time it is not about Bitcoin, BTC, but about one of its former blockchain forking spliting clones: Bitcoin Cash, BCH. At that time innitiated and sponsored by Bitmain and ViaPool. The main Bitcoin Cash developer, Amaury Séchet, got banned from the BCH slack channel. And Twitter was showing the first signs of a Bitcoin Cash war developing.
Just a few days before the shait really started to hit the fan in the BCH realm, a Bitcoin Core coder, Cory Fields, discovered a critical bug in the Bitcoin Cash code and offered a fix. This shows the true nature, I think, of majority of the Crypto developers and the community. But the fight this time is not about Bitcoin, BTC, even though Bitcoin Cash sponsor CoinGeek still promotes its Bcash as Bitcoin.
There was a hostile Bitcoin Cash take-over recently, with lead-developer Amaury Séchet getting silenced. And mister C. Wright of the nChain company claiming a new developement team is taking over. Of course under the umbrella of nChain and sponsored by ChainGeek. The resulting hardfork is called Bitcoin (cash) Satoshi's Vision, BSV(?). But does this leave the original Bitcoin Cash, BCH, for dead behind?
Another blockchain split
As long as there are still miners supporting the original Bitcoin Cash, BCH, chain, then there will be a split. And the Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision, BSV, team will need to make sure their hardfork is secured. The are going to be major differences between the two versions and nobody would want their transactions to get messed up. And from what I read on Twitter the original Bitcoin Cash, BCH, blockchain will get a lot of support.
So, Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision will need its own entrance into exchanges, with its own unique ticker. My guess is that it maybe will become known as Bitcoin Satoshi, BS, and it will get a part of the current Bitcoin Cash, BCH, market value. It could be about 35 USD for BS, where BCH will stabilize around 150, I guess. A Bitcoin Cash blockchain split seems about to happen.
Bitcoin Core will win?
This is not Bitcoin, BTC, but a recent hardfork of Bitcoin Cash, BCH. It has BTCC as a ticker and succesfully moved to one minute blocks of 8 MegaByte very recently. This could be the one leaving the cash-fighters way behind and get to a value of 350? But that is my speculation, so please remember to only invest what you are willing and able to lose. My vote is still for Bitcoin, BTC, as the one.
Why I think that Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision, BSV, is going to fail, is because the involvement of mister C. Wright and his nChain company. And less because of the CoinGeek sponsoring and their apparant cagefight mentality. Mister Wright has made it very clear what he wants to do. It is a 1.5 trillion market that he wants his share of. Like he clearly stated on many occassions: he is a businessman in the first place. And he dislikes Ancaps, Libertarians and Voluntarists. Just watch his public dictations.
The true vision?
Kuddos to him for being open, direct and honest about it. In all of the videos I watched where he dictated his BS vision he was very clear. The banks and goverments in, patents for his company and extremely huge blocks that will need a proper infrastructure. Basicly this means big companies centraly controlling his version of Bitcoin. But there is some kind of religious adoration going about in a part of the Bitcoin Cash community that makes the blind leading the blind, I think.
Yet, there will also be those who will cheer for the way this will unfold, as suggested by mister Wright. What better way for mass adoption when banks, governments and multinationals get in and take over. But I do find it hard to belief that this was actually the vision of Satoshi Nakamoto. And I think that the majority of the Cryptos will turn their backs on this. It was supposed to be decentralized, and to function as a substantive functioning alternative to the current system.
Time will tell
The Bitcoin Satoshi, BS, version will come in november 2018. It will be an nChain business controlled version, CoinGeek sponsored, that hardforked off Bitcoin Cash, BCH. This will probably cause another blockchain split clone. Another Bitcoin Cash, BCH, split, after already Bitcoin Core, BTCC, split off. This will cause a price drop, as I expect. Except for BTCC, that I think will come out on top.
Exciting times again in the Cryptos realm. Will it be possible for banks, goverments and multinationals to take-over control over Bitcoin, as the Satoshi's Vision version? Or will Cryptos show its true strength as a true free, open and decentralized alternative to the old system of central control by the banking monetary government system. Time will tell...