Bitcoin was considered by many, including myself, to be honest, as the result of a split that will not survive long. Now the first block is made and it seems that many more people are convinced by the technology of Bitcoin Cash. The price shooted up to over 700$ and I regret having bumped it at a most unfavorable price. Is it just a straw fire or has the BCH actually overcome the weaknesses of bitcoin in technology?
With the largest miner and hardware producer BITMAIN and one of the largest Pool and exchange VIABTC behind them, BCH/BCC sure has a future.
That is not really true. If you took some time and read Bitmain's blog you would find this:
Bitmain and ViaBTC only share an investment relationship in which ViaBTC operates independently. The founder of ViaBTC has ten times the voting rights as those of the investors of ViaBTC. Therefore, the position of ViaBTC does not represent Bitmain’s stance.
The New York Agreement is a joint effort of the global Bitcoin community. As one of its signatories, Bitmain has actively supported the smooth implementation of Segwit2x and will continue to run the btc1 software on all our mining pools, namely Antpool, BTC.COM pool and ConnectBTC, in the foreseeable future.
We are closely observing the “BCC” movement and do not rule out the possibility of supporting both Segwit2x and BCC.
If VIABTC supports BCC that does not mean Bitmain is too. As they say, they support Segwit2x and will continue to support original Bitcoin.