Have fun with your digital gold and custodial LN banking. Way to break ground and lead humanity into the future!
New term for Maxi's: B-Sheep.
You & all your B-sheep friends would follow bitcoin off a cliff.
Love Bitcoin as long term investment if you will (although XRP has a stonger record). But know that while Bitcoin used on the layer 1, in a self-custodial manner, is a good, decentralized currency. Anything else needed to use it is a mirror of the legacy financial system, defeating the most basic purpose of bitcoin's creation.
The right doesn't fix the left :(
In 2011, bitcoin didn't need the Lightning network!
Monero "shills" itself, money so good it succeeds in spite of it's rejection.
You seem unable to come up with any rational arguments, other than 1 BTC = $XXX,XXX USD.
I could give two shits regarding the fork. I keep my eyes out for cryptocurrencies that are secure, good privacy, easy to use and transact with low fees, have a history of trustworthiness.
Your only criteria seems to be that it's Bitcoin, no matter what bitcoin is. Because while the layer 1 has strong features, it need for layer 2s & 3s greatly reduce it's overall value (to the degree that self-custody, a founding principle, is a minor or non-existent feature) and vastly increase the complexity of it's usage.
Very true. Please consider that bch is still being banned from commerce by the btccommunityy; not avail on Bitrefill, BTCPay, Bisq and others, but the technology and social dynamics have moved on from 2017. Bch is on solid uptrend since 2023.
In the past year alone 3 DEXs have started uo and have strong followings; RetoSwap, BasicSwap, Cauldron and likely others. These DEXs include bch (and btc) RetoSwap is heard to be doing more business than Bisq after only 1 year!
The winds are changing. People want fast, cheap transactions. Monero inows this, Litecoin knows this, Bitcoin Cash knows this.
Bitcoin only knows Michael Saylor's leverage. 
Pity the fool that needs a boat accident to manage their money.
Nobody really wants to go back to 2017, so let me give you some 2025 BCash info.
Bcash - 21M max supply
Bcash - Created by Satoshi
Bcash - is lightning fast, no need for centralized fixes.
Bcash - has a layer 1 stablecoin.
Bcash - has layer 1 tokenization
Bcash - EXCELLENT, User friendly and complete ecosystem.
Bitcoin - totally useless as day to day money.
Bitcoin - has nothing in common with the functionality described in the whitepaper.
Bitcoin - instead of replacing a corrupt banking system, it has been coopted by it.
Bitcoin - it's most famous proponent thinks self-custody is for fools.
Basically Bitcoin Cash already DOES everything bitcoiners wish Bitcoin could do.
Even I will argue that even though bitcoin is slow and retatded, it is not a shitcoin. But, literally everything associated with it is, all the centralized layer 2 & 3 BS needed to make it work.
Even better is that both Monero and Bitcoin Cash have developers working on their respective "zaps" functionality to be added.
Nostr will soon know what it means to be free!
Wouldn't know, Bitcoin Cash IS Lightning fast, and just like Colt 45, it works every time.
Unusable without a custodian!
If it's not self custody, it's not for me!
NOT YOUR KEYS, NOT YOUR COINS!
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Strike or Cash App? Which kind of moron are you? Spend wisely!
Par for the course
...and at least 100 other quality Cryptos that do the same thing, but better.