Article that ELI5 why the bitcoin cash EDA bug is a problem

[shyliar]

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/miners-are-milking-bcashs-difficulty-adjustments-and-why-problem1/

[alyssa85]

Nice find OP. Looks like if the difficulty doesn't stabalise, the real problem will emerge in 2018, with an accelerated halvening.

That means bitcoincash has about 18 months to solve it's problems...

[shyliar]

Trouble is that even if developers find a method of solving the problem there is nothing to motivate miners to upgrade to a new release. Why would they?

The current situation is based on price though. If bitcoin cash drops in value significantly or increases it will help alleviate the situation. It's unlikely it will increase. Why would people prop up the value when the developers have demonstrated a level of incompetence? If the value drops miners will flee reducing security significantly.