For average Joe/Jane, the real danger is scammers trying to sell them BCH as "BTC on a discount" (or, if BCH wins, the other way around). I expect this to happen a lot and this will harm Bitcoins (no matter what version) path to mass adoption.
Not to mention, I am AMAZED I haven't seen a post from someone who found a new BCC compatible wallet. Tried it. Imported their private keys to it. And all it did was transmit the key data to a scammer somewhere. Who promptly emptied their account for them.
Wouldn't be terribly hard to do.
Enough people with no technical clue what they're doing that you could easily make a short term smash'n'grab profit with it. (Cos they didn't empty the wallet before re-using the key on the fake.)
Or maybe that has happened and I just haven't read about it yet.
Which again, is just bad publicity for crypto and nobody wins. Except the scammer obviously.
Interesting times when there is turbulence in the big boys arena.
Yup, there is almost no way we won't see some shady online wallets, coinsplitting services and whatnot. I read some scam accusations about particular electron cash downloads, but maybe I was mistaken.
Moreover, theymos mentioned
here, that replay protection is not always guaranteed and/or that BCH wallets may overwrite existing wallet data. I don't know whether this is still an issue, with the fork being now in place technically as well, but there may still be the danger of moving one coin and losing the other in the process. Or is that mitigated by now?