I can understand a lot of the hate that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general gets on this forum. For most it is now a get rich quick scheme and those who have been inundated into the cult are quick to downplay it's shortcomings.
But Bitcoin was not built to make money for anyone it was built to be money.
The very title of the Bitcoin white paper has long since been outdated as it was referred to a peer-to-peer digital Cash system that would have low fees and instant transactions is a distant cry from what it has become. Now with high fees and taking from 10 minutes to several hours for transaction to clear it has become completely useless as digital cash. What is bizarre is that this is no coincidence or fault of the protocol. The changes that were introduced into the Bitcoin code base were deliberately put there by the developers who had hijacked control of the GitHub repo most of whom worked for the for-profit company called Blockstream.
Two hacks in particular were introduced years ago that invalidated the cash use case for Bitcoin namely something called replaced by fee and another called segwit. Both reduce the usefulness of Bitcoin by making it either more expensive or less useful.
However before these chain breaking hacks were introduced a fork was made of the repository which is now called Bitcoin Cash, BCH. Bitcoin cash is nothing more than the original code base and vision of Bitcoin that has been carried forward for over a decade now. There is one simple difference between the two projects. The former has high transaction fees and low transaction speed purpose-built into the protocol well the latter sticks with the original road map by incrementally increasing the block size as needed to keep transactions quick and cheap.
Only one of these two projects looks anything like the original and the other is a twisted useless get rich quick scheme managed by a for-profit company with only themselves in mind.
