Most importantly, the value of this coin will be determined by Segwit activation/deactivation...
Of course there is a chance that BCC could have lower fees, and handle transactions better and thus be be more fungible and valuable than BTC after Segwit...
Or Segwit might not activate...
segwit is as close to in the bag as possible.
it's the 2mb part that'll turn everything to shit and that's why this coin was probably created in the first place. it's the threat miners can hang over it.
it was obvious from the signaling that they didn't want segwit. they only went with it to get the hard fork later on. it won't be ready in time or core will poison the thinking over it so they'll threaten to switch to this.
the block size debate hasn't been resolved. it's just been changed and this coin adds a whole lot more scare tactics for the big blockers.
Agreed. But if you're objective when looking at what happened, you'll agree that Segwit was rammed down peoples' throats with the UASF/BIP148 threat. Seg2x was a compromise, and the 2MB hard fork clearly won't happen.
BCC was well-timed to do an end run around the whole debate - we now have an 8MB block version of Bitcoin, and it's working fine. Even on a Raspberry Pi. I concur that the devs are somewhat obscure, and we don't really know who is mining it.
Rather than re-igniting the blocksize fire, let's just let the market decide. Nothing scary in that.
