and what happened?
eth is still the same pump and dump altcoin with nothing to offer other than a place for ICOs to scam people. and it is now littered with at least 6 major hacks caused by the same developers on their main client leading to millions of dollar lost.
a congested network with a bloated blockchain which makes running a full node for it impossible.
the number of nodes shrinking day by day and will soon fall under 20.
countries banning ICOs which is the only life support it has...

should i go on?

it has been like this for a while now. and what did you expect when bitcoin is being advertised on the media and every big and small players are talking about it, that attracts a lot of money towards bitcoin. despite the current fall the buy support is strong and huge because of all that.

and by the way it is $5.5 billion dollar in past 24 hours according to coinmarketcap.com which adds the volume of all the exchanges. about $900 million of it belongs to bitfinex

first of all bitcoin is working fine, it worked fine even before all this drama heated up last year. secondly development of bitcoin will never stop even if all the current developers dropped dead. it is not like they are the only people in the world who know how to code. and finally they are not going anywhere, the development is still active and strong.

these side projects, some of which trying to take over, will come and go and their developers give up because they can no longer achieve their goals. that has nothing to do with bitcoin.

there is actually a huge cost.
when you mine bitcoin and its derivatives you will have to wait for 100 blocks before you are able to spend the block reward. and that means waiting for a highly volatile price before being able to get the fiat value of what you mined and it becomes even riskier when we are talking about bitcoin cash.

and last time they switched and mined 1000 blocks per day, the price of BCH crashed right after they got their rewards and dumped it.

right now they have mined 38 blocks in past hour instead of normal 4

go to this link and buy me one of the most popular games on steam gaming platform with one of these additional supplies coins:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/730/CounterStrike_Global_Offensive/

use bitcoin cash to buy it, if you could do that without converting bitcoin cash to bitcoin or fiat before making the purchase then you are correct the supply has been increased

but if i had to guess, i would say you will never post on bitcointalk using this account ever again after the BCH pump was over...

you can only trade everything else (aka altcoins) if either of these conditions are true:
1. bitcoin price is stable. stability can be short and it is when price fluctuates less than 10%. that time traders who can't really make much profit in bitcoin market switch to altcoins to pump them and make money.

2. if the altcoin is getting pumped. that requires the altcoin to not be in a bubble already. like what is happening to bitcoin cash. it was not in a bubble, in fact it was properly dumped and it is being pumped right now. in the following 2-6 months you will see lots of bag holders who have bought BCH on top of the upcoming bubble and will cry their hearts out about how good BCH is in hopes that it goes back up but it won't.

that is not a weird theory that is a dump theory of someone who either don't understand how market works or was trying to advertise bitcoin cash and help its pump so he could dump it a little higher.

the reality is that when they pump BCH price, some miners switch over because it is more profitable to mine something with lower difficulty when the price of it rises so BCH hashrate rises.
it is the same with bitcoin. you can put two charts of hashrate and price on each other and see with price rising from 400 to 800 then 1200 then 2000 and so on, hashrate have been rising and that is because it becomes increasingly more profitable to mine bitcoin as its price rises

in simple terms the theory is upside down!

"they" made up their minds already and made an announcement through the mailing list and as you can see "they" which included miners are slowly stopping to signal NYA .

the link in OP is made by someone else. most probably someone who have invested in BC2 futures and lost a lot of money

once again the market is smiling upon everyone who has not yet invested in bitcoin and wanted to become a part of this community and hold some small stake in this scarce currency.
this smiling won't last for long though.

it is not too late, but still you have to invest what you can afford to lose. you can wait a little while to see when this dip is going to end before jumping in if you want to take risks, or you can just buy now since it is a dip.

people who signed the message in the mailing list of SegWit2x are the ONLY reason why people are saying the fork is not going to happen or canceled! there were no other indications. of course apart from ViaBTC now signalling for bitcoin cash instead of NYA but i think that happened after the email was released.

and all about this can be considered as good news in my opinion. now there is no risk of any kind of split as it was before.

people don't search about a topic just to know about it. they also search for the news about that thing they are searching for
for example they can search "why gold price rise, falls,... what is going to happen, how to buy it,..." but they are instead searching all that about bitcoin. it can be just news about bitcoin or gold, or it can be where to buy/sell or simply the price of it.
the total "trend" shows bitcoin is ahead. but the important part is that it is increasing which shows more people are getting to know bitcoin and even if some of them invest, that means more people are investing in bitcoin. and that justifies the current rally.

nothing about this is bad and it definitely doesn't mean pump in altcoins. i am sorry if you invested in some altcoin and want to to pump now, but there is a better chance of altcoins getting dumped now that bitcoin does not have the risk of being split because of Segwit2x!

and it was a mature move in my opinion. although there is some speculation that this was the plan all along but if we assume that is wrong, then it was a mature move to postpone the hard fork until it gets a high support and has no risk of dividing anything.

March is about 5 months from now and you want us to believe that bitcoin's growth is going to come to near halt so that it can only rise up to $10k which is a tiny 33% rise from current price?

i disagree! a 6% rise per month is too small for bitcoin, specially now that it is on the way up with adoption and all this media attention that bitcoin is receiving these days.

if it was all about the price then ZCash beat bitcoin some time ago when each coin was worth 6 or 7 BTC at some point.
and no B2X is not a necessity. it is rushed and doesn't have enough support that a hard fork should have. although NYA had a lot of support back when it was activating SegWit, and nobody complained then

i always find it funny how the ethereum bag holders keep creating new accounts to show their desperation for a pump.


and what technology is that? the buggy platform which can not handle a surge of smart contract transactions, which is the only thing it was designed to do? you think this platform is more advanced than the cryptocurrency called bitcoin?

not at all. altcoins have survived for many years and their survival never meant bitcoin to be invalidated. they remain as an "alternative" and the main thing forever will remain bitcoin until years from now something better  comes along.
these forks are also temporary hiccups. after some short time they will just go into the list of "failed attempts" beside hundreds of others.

it is my understanding that you will be paying an additional fee to the centralized service that issued that debit card for you when using their services.
also you will not be using bitcoin, you are using a third party!

if there is a direct way of purchasing with bitcoin without anyone in the middle that would be 10000 times better than using a bitcoin debit card through a third party and pay them!

since when do we talk about rich people investing or not investing in bitcoin? it is not even news-worthy if you ask me to write an article about such things.
and lets not forget that bitcoin is too small for people like that! the marketcap of bitcoin being nearly $120 billion is a bit misleading because when you compare it to the things these rich people invested in (such as Oil related stuff) you can see bitcoin is nothing in their eyes now.

to be honest i would do all of the above!

i think some combination of keep some sell some is the best approach to this upcoming fork. all the selling, even if they are small will leave you with some money at hand which you can keep ready (in your exchange wallet) and then buy more bitcoin when the end of the year rally is starting and enjoy the additional bitcoin that you get before the price reaches a new ATH.

we can never know because a lot of unexpected things can happen in the future that have the potential of changing the course of price rise a lot. for example this year we had the Japanese mass adoption which started early on this year, we had the end of bitcoin scaling debate or at least end of most of the debate. and these two were huge unexpected changes that led to huge unexpected rises.

so the future rise may not be like this year but there will be more rise in 2018.