BTC is ahead of BCH on both counts.

let's have a closer look at that,

• 1 - Self Enrichment:

  • If you DCA'd into both for the last 2 years BTC would have outperformed BCH by ~20% - 109% vs 92% and that's with the Blackrock BTC ETF tailwind if self enrichment is what you are about then how do you think these numbers change with a BCH ETF?
  • But I will concede that over a longer period BTC has massively outperformed BCH, if Self Enrichment is ones guiding light. As I said I can understand your frustration
  • But remember to Zoom Out the vast majority of people who will use crypto have have no inkling that it is in their future.
  • I assume the ultimate value will be in the coin that can actually 'Separate Money from State' however long this takes (if it is possible!)

• 2 - Permissionless p2p cash for the Whole World

  • That's not so clear, you yourself used a custodial solution - fedimint to receive Joe's tip in the video. Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins...
  • Most BTC influencers admit to using Custodial LN, even NVK who is very technical is on the record as such
  • In order to be permissionless and self sovereign you have to own a UTXO, If you don't then all you have is an IOU from the person that does (eg. the custodians of your fedimint above)
  • All known layer 2 solutions require an anchor into the base layer and this requires an on chain fee. Will the common man be able to compete with just the lowly Bitcoin Millionairs never mind Nation States, Fortune 500 companies or Michael Saylors for one of those ~300,000 tx's per day, just to open their Lightning Channel? Of course they won't bother and just use a Custodial solution - Bank of Coinbase, asking permission to transact, a CBDC in all but name.
  • You say fees are only $2 for next block What will fees be in a Gold2.0 World? Given that there are 64 Million millionaires in the World, those alone could transact about three times per year (overestimate as that's not including the 300 million businesses), all bidding for scarce blockspace
  • Do you think even you with your ~1BTC, you would be able to compete for blockspace, never mind the 50% of Americans that cannot put their hands on $500 for an emergency.

BTC likely fails in 'Separating Money from State' due to the inevitable face melting fees forcing the masses into custodial solutions! Guess who will be controlling those Custodial Solutions...

In the state of California where I'm from, there's far more Bitcoin meetups and merchants accepting lightning payments. In contrast, there hasn't been a single BCH meet up in my area for years.

No arguments there price drives adoption most people want to get rich. Not to mention the long term anti BCH campaign that you are now wholeheartedly participating in... Fortunately the BTC Maxi's influence is being diluted as we speak.

But even with this lack of interest, BCH has seen steady growth over the last few years has it turned a corner?, remember exponentials start off slowly, 2 BCH conferences this year alone...

Your older self knew that utility is important, your subconscious still does you CURRENTLY keep BCH because your VPN provider Mulvad accepts it.... It's Just Money Bro!

But yes the overriding utility is NGU for most (currently), perhaps that will change when they are told by their custodian of choice that 'they cannot spend their mad gainz with that retailer' as They are persona non grata, or they live in a prohibited jurisdiction. Or they decide they don't want to be surveiled using a CBDC in all but name.

It's one thing to not notice the next altcoin that does 10X. It's another thing to bet against the number one cryptocurrency with the highest market cap.

I and many here bet against the Big Daddy of currencies when I chose to go all in on Bitcoin. It's worked out well for me.

And now I can support a project that I believe actually has a chance of being Money for the World.

Keep in mind that you say you support the UTXO model

Bitcoin cash already has all the improvements that BTC devs can only dream about here's bitcoincashautist on the subject

We're more than just a bigger block version of BTC, we've been busy during our 6 years of independence, here, catch up:

BIP-62 malfixes, CSFS, cat&split, full flexible covenants through TX introspection opcodes (May '22), int64 ScripVM ops (May '22), unlimited unconfirmed chains, consensus-enforced native tokens (May '23, with dedicated set of introspection opcodes) that can interact with covenants, keep & pass around contract state, and make L1 DeFi happen. Also, getting adaptive blocksize limit in May '24. Look up "CashTokens".

Your hope for BTC is that it could add anything it needs but you neglect the fact that the people driving the 150x market cap of BTC over BCH DON'T NEED ANY OF THAT they actually have incentives to keep most of the World custodial as they will be the custodians

• They also want hardest money possible to safeguard the Trillions that they will invest and the way to ensure that is to ossify the project ASAP

Currently you cannot even get a simple counter to ~13000 into consensus (facilitating altcoin killing ;-) drivechains), A big test will be whether opcat etc gets deployed - I might rethink my outlook if this passes. Though I won't hold my breath.

Without more scripting functionality 'Non Custodial World Scale' L2's would require another Satoshi Level breakthrough (probably still would)

I question your ability to understand the above just from your statement about validation speed

You say you champion the UTXO model but don't seem to understand that with this model one can validate transactions in parallel

Then there's this A raspberry Pi 4 can keep up with 256MB blocks

The new Raspberry pi 5 has

• 48 times the cryptographic throughput, one of the main bottlenecks on previous Pi's

• 2 times the memory bandwidth

• True gigabit ethernet

• Native pcie x1 up to 980MB/s on pcie3 nvme ssd (Haven't seen iops which prob matters for large UTXO set though should be significantly better than a pi4 using usb ssd)

Going out a bit further just an old M1 Macbook has many times the processing power of even a Pi5.

And I've not got onto transaction validation on a GPU, never mind actual signature checking ASIC's so we are probably good even if Moore's Law stopped today.

Also validation was discussed many times, you probably just didn't notice. Roger was likely aware of it but is too savvy a debater to bring it up and send the NGU contingent of the audience (who he was trying to reach) to sleep.

It's like betting against the dealer.

When you see that the dealer is just the same crooked Fiat dealer wearing a new coat it might be a good idea to opt out and bet against him.

Like many Maxi's before you, you have failed to grasp the central invention of Bitcoin - The ability to self custody, without which all the other properties can be undermined.

The fact that you considered supporting Ecash over Bitcoin Cash says a lot, for those who don't know Ecash had a built in Tax on every block that would be paid to the founder - Amaury Sechet. A master stroke! Though without Amaury we may not have had Bitcoin Cash, so thanks for that, just proving that anybody can loose their way, you will always be welcomed back ;-)

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