I just observed the prompt about providing KYC (Know Your Customer) information to continue using the Forum here. While I am pretty sure I provided some personal information, SSN and/or Credit Card info is way over the line for me in terms of this kind of Forum. I get it for a bank where large amounts of money changes hand, but this feels way to intrusive, or perhaps the whole point of the forum is changing and I just didn't realize it.

It's rare for me to start a thread, but I wanted some other thoughts.

For quite a while, prior to the last "halving", bitcoinwisdom was my go to website to get a good summary of the state of Bitcoin mining, difficulty, profitability and so forth. It seemed to "leave the rails" and I stopped visiting it.

Just in the last 10 days, I have visited it again, and it appears to be pretty well straightened out. The figure look to be be pretty accurate and quite useful again.

Am I missing some massive flaw in it's reporting? What the consensus amongst other folks on the current usefulness of bitcoinwisdom at this time? Any back story on it's apparent "return"?

This isn't so much a technical question, but rather how the forum will treat the hard-fork of BTC into BCH.

Is BCH considered an Altcoin and hence unwelcome to be discussed, or is it so close to BTC that it's OK to include it? I am thinking this same question applies to all the sub-forums (e.g. Hardware, Speculation, Pools, etc).

I had no god idea on how to get some insight into this, and the various moderators might want to update their various "sticky" threads with some kind of guidance.