are we going to have 10 years of this finger pointing just to try making people think that core should own the branding just to stop the finger pointing..

or
should we just stop finger pointing and instead inform the community that NO team owns "bitcoin" brand
and although core maintain btc
and although bloq maintain bch
both teams are not "the bitcoin"

and although thymos promotes btc as the bitcoin
and although Roger.ver promote bch as the bitcoin
both teams are not "the bitcoin"

and although a.back pretends he helped satoshi make bitcoin
and although C.wright pretends he helped satoshi make bitcoin
both a.holes did not code anything during 2008-2010 so both are lying a.hats
and so both teams are not "the bitcoin"

both networks diverted off the old path and so both cannot claim ownership of satoshi's invention. they both have code that is far too different to satoshi's invention.
so both cannot make claim over it

it was a bilateral split. not a unilateral split. meaning both sides diverted not just one

remember if your going to waste time pointing fingers at one team remmber to point fingers at the other team, because behind the scenes they are doing the same thing and funded by the same people..

dont leet them distract the community with social drama of people that have not programed the networks. purely so the guys that coded the networks can play victim and ownership..

anyway do we really need dozens more topics of the same topic saying the same kardashian drama without actually being realistic and informative in the topic creators propaganda post.

its clarifying things.

eg that Novogratz guy Says ‘Bitcoin Core is BTC’

so, using the dollar analogy

U.S dollar is USD

yes by making it clear about the community network and the abreviation then his statement is ok

but no one owns the brand

U.S dollar is USD
A.U dollar is AUD

but neither are the sole, one and only dollar

..
‘Bitcoin Core is BTC’
‘Bitcoin Cash is BCH’
but neither are the sole, one and only bitcoin

the civil war of mid 2017 (bilateral split) seen to that

..
major analogy time. seeing as the OP brought up the "empire" analogy. legs start with that
imagine in 2009 there was a british empire. that had one currency, that everyone on many continents agreed was one currency network/medium of exchange called the dollar for years one network. many communities, many maintainers of record and many rule lobbyists

.. then came the civil war fo 2017. instead of democracy they decided to over throw the rule of law and democracy and go independant. to go their separate ways

now although these ex empire currencies proclaim they both have history going back to the british empire to use the dollar. they both have different populations that value the dollar within their new communities at different rates. and so because they are now no longer part of the original empire and both differ.. neither can make claim to being sole owner of the dollar. and thus have to clarify which community currency they are using/trading
for instance
america has to communicate its USD  (core has to comunicate its btc)
australia has to communicate its  AUD (cash has to comunicate its bch)
if core keep trying to proclaim they are just "bitcoin". then they are being hypocritical and literally centralising things to only one community. rather than remain decentralised. thus they are confusing the issue.

anyone attacking cash but not attacking cores hypocrisy. dont care about decentralisation and instead want centralisation in the form of a core monarchy

There really is no need for coming up with forced analogies and creative ideas like bilateral split etc etc. Only one Bitcoin is needed. If you want to trade or buy it, then go for the BTC ticker.

This constant distraction about bitcoin being a well-defined, objective idea that should only follow the whitepaper as a bible is absurd. The community project that was handed down by Satoshi has SegWit implemented in it's current form. It is the network, the community and the individuals world over who value and identify the historical transaction database associated with the BTC chain with Bitcoin Core being the main client/ software. That is sufficient to identify Bitcoin.

Doesn't change the fact that Bitcoin Cash is an alt-coin and these marketing tactics are just a dirty businessman's game. These people have done everything from misleading newbies through their owned platforms to manipulatively pumping it during crucial events.

Today if somebody were to start another chain fully compliant with the original code devoid of all the BIPs and start calling it the the "Bitcoin Vintage", it won't be bitcoin. Bitcoin Is. That's it.

Roger Ver and his fanboys are just playing desperate word games to survive. The real reason for all of these games are bigger profit. They will pump BCash to a ATH and then they will dump it, like they did with Bitcoin. Most of these people sold their Bitcoin <BTC> at the ATH of $18 000+ and now they want to do this again with BCash.

At some stage in the future these BCash pumpers will find some excuse to fork away from BCash and they will start pumping a new coin. 
 

I appreciate Roger. It's really a big fight. but there is something he forgets. Bitcoin is bitcoin and king is always bitcoin.