Bcash solves all the miner’s problems (mostly):

1.   Maximizes miner’s profits by switching hash between Bitcoin & bcash
2.   Lowers the difficulty of Bitcoin by moving hash temporary away from Bitcoin
3.   Maximizes miner’s profits by extending the usefulness of mining equipment
4.   Proves bigger blocks are feasible and hard forks safe (so far)
5.   Puts pressure on the opposition to get the changes they want
6.   Maximizes miner’s profits (did I say this already?)

Did I miss anything?

As long as the Bitmain cartel can keep the price propped up on bcash, they created a perfect way to manipulate the system to get what they want while making record profits. We all have to give them credit, it’s brilliant!

Bitmain has got some smart people working for them and they got some balls. As much as I detest them, give credit where its due.

I got a rate of around 0.12 BTC on HitBTC earlier today after much stress and agonizing 

BTW, HitBTC seems shady to me, no verification, not even my name to transact for, lets just say 10k+ worth of BCH 

All in all I'm happy, probably could've gotten more by playing around maybe even waiting but why risk it.

Any other success stories?

Kraken down, Bittrex not taking deposits, WTF?

Only reason the price is high, no one can get rid of it!

I hope they fork off this board too and choke on their large blocks 

https://news.bitcoin.com/viabtc-launching-bitcoin-cash-token-mining-pool-bitcoin-abc/

Seriously though, now everyone can kind of get what they want 

"I finally read all the BIPs about Segwit, The more I read, The more reason to refuse it. We own little LTC and no hashrate, fine to support."

Edit:
https://twitter.com/ViaBTC/status/856487968193642496 -Was Deleted

Archive link https://archive.is/LldXR -thanks sportis

So they been opposing it and hating on it before they even read it but fuck LTC, they can have it LOL.

These guys are such jokes.

It only takes a few accounts to manipulate any discussion.

“Reddit's favorite scientist, used 5 accounts to bury criticism and to give his own comments visibility.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/shills/comments/5xi4gv/proof_of_concept_shills_only_need_a_few_accounts/

Here is the more detailed explanation of what shills are capable of:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/reddits-favorite-scientist-just-got-banned-for-cheating-the-site

Here’s a video about Reddit being manipulated by professional shills every day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjLsFnQejP8&feature=youtu.be

Often times internet trolls are hired to shill. Here are some examples from the 2016 presidential election:
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-internet-trolls-and-donald-trump-2016-7
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/4/21/1518537/-Clinton-SuperPac-Admits-to-Paying-Internet-Trolls

Here is a very good write up about internet trolls and trolling.
Included is information on over 100 different types of trolls and the different kinds of characterizations a troll can manifest when selling an agenda or a product.
https://darkpsychology.co/troll/

If you think this does not apply to Bitcointalk, you either haven’t been here long or are burying your head in the sand.
As a community, we need to stand up and fightback to combat shilling on our forum.
Below is my thread on shilling, please feel free to add to it.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1879789.0

Shilling on Bitcointalk has moved to epic levels and I’m tired of it. Battling these shill/trolls is like a part-time job with no pay and little reward. Any newbie coming here for information will have problems discerning what’s true due to these shysters. Instead of outright censorship, as a public service, I offer the Bitcoin Shill Force List!

Anti-Core, anti-Blockstream, pro-Bitcoin Unlimited/alternate client (classic, XT, EC, EXT Blocks, etc.), or Alt coin shills:

franky1 (alex.BTC?, big blocker, anti-core, anti-blockstream, says he supports decentralization but is pro-BU)
jonald_fyookball (also shills on Reddit, big blocker, anti-core, anti-blockstream)
*iamnotback (thinks he’s a programmer, haughty, Alt coin shill, 24/7 posting?)
kiklo (angry, rude, Incredibly Good Looking (unproven), Fun To be Around (debatable), Best Tipper in Asian Brothels (this I can believe)
cryptoanarchist

Please feel free to add to the list and include any relevant information about their shilling habits and alternate accounts. Let’s keep this updated so everyone knows who has legitimate opinions and who do not (AKA paid). Let’s combat these shysters together!

If your name is on the list and you do not agree with it, make a post explaining why and provide verifiable facts to back up your case.

Rules for shills:

Rule 1: If your name is on the list, do NOT post here unless it is to prove you’re not a paid shill.
Rule 2: If your name is on the list, do NOT argue with people here, state facts to prove your case.
Rule 3: If your name is on the list, you do NOT get to swear or call people names, state facts to prove your case.
Rule 4: There may be more rules added as needed.

*Under review, needs further research.

jonald_fyookball is on reddit calling everyone who disagrees with him on Bitcointalk a PAID SHILL 

I'm laughing SOOOOOOOOOOOO hard LOL

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/63wne6/bitcointalk_is_overrun_with_paid_shills/

Apparently, Jihan Wu has been covertly using some patented exploit called asicboost to gain 20%+ efficiency on his hardware that’s incompatible with SegWit. It all makes sense now. Hope he gets his ass sued off.

Shills care to chime in?

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-April/013996.html

Avast is telling me that I need to add a security exclusion for Electrum and I shouldn't have to do that if it was legitimate.

Is this normal?

Nearly $2 billion has been wiped off bitcoin’s value in three days all because of a fork.

Headline from the front page of Yahoo.com

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/nearly-2-billion-wiped-off-121914544.html

This is why BTU needs to go away and the scaling wars need to end. How far will the value of BTC drop should this clusterfuck continue?

BTU supporters refuse to acknowledge China mining centralization and that a few elite Chinese control majority of BTU hash. They seem to think this is what Satoshi wanted, Chinese centralized mining and control over Bitcoin. When did decentralization become centralized? They also have a fanatical belief in Core/Blockstream conspiracy theories such as forcing people to use LN. As if no other company can create a side-chain for off-chain transactions. They also believe ALL Core contributors; more than 100 people are all conspiring with Blockstream to centralize Bitcoin and usurp control for themselves, while ignoring the centralization already taking place in China. The Chinese already control most of the mining equipment production, the actual mining of Bitcoin and now possibly via BTU the development and direction of Bitcoin. BUT, BTU supporters don’t see a problem there, no conspiracy, just the conspiracy with Blockstream…

The conclusions I have drawn from these lunatics is that they would rather see Bitcoin burn than admit the flaws with BTU. Their hate for Core is such that they would rather give Bitcoin over to the Chinese and see it destroyed than find an equitable solution elsewhere. Their mentality is BTU or bust, as if no other solution to scaling can exist. The truth is, Bitcoin is probably doomed. With a few “elite” miners making the decisions for the majority. I thought Bitcoin was supposed to be different? Sounds a lot like every other system we have.

The scaling debate reminds me of how Trump and every republican gets elected in the US. Poor uneducated white voters vote them into office believing the lies told by these wealthy people with wealthier friends, “We know what’s best, trust us, we have your best interests at heart.” The same white voters have been told for decades by republicans that “liberal” “left” “Democrat” are bad words and nothing good comes from them. These same dumb white voters didn’t know that “Obamacare” was a demonizing term created by republicans to fool them about the ACA. They didn’t understand that Obamacare was the ACA and providing them free or low cost healthcare, which they liked. Now they are horrified the republicans they voted into office want to get rid of their healthcare.

The sheeple have been manipulated since the dawn of time by the elite to support ideas that goes against their own self-interests because of irrational hatred the elite create in the sheeple’s minds. Keep voting republicans into office, keep believing in the wealthy elite. They will make America (and Bitcoin) great again and your lives will improve, except it never does. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results - Albert Einstein

Same kind of situation with the scaling debate, minus the voting (the little guy doesn’t have a voice in Bitcoin). You can whisper, you can talk, you SCREAM at the top of your lungs but only the elite miners have a say in what happens, as designed apparently by Satoshi or at least that’s what BTU supporters will have you believe.

Mental illness is no joke. You cannot have a rational discussion with irrational people. Arguing is pointless. For further proof, visit /r/btc if you dare!

Note: Maybe not ALL BTU supporters are lunatics, some are paid shills and others maybe lacking basic reasoning skills?

As per Coindesk: In the event of a hardfork with BTU, major exchanges will list BTU as BTU or XBT.

Source: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-exchanges-unveil-emergency-hard-fork-contingency-plan/

Let me repeat this, BTU will be an ALT COIN NOT BITCOIN!

Expect prices to drop.

According to Vinny, if BTU activates exchanges will list it as BTU and the ensuing chaos will cause the value of BTC to crash hard.

Source https://vinnylingham.com/a-fork-in-the-road-70288fd3c046#.axoifstr6