So after the fork happened and Bitcoin Cash was created, as of today on CoinMarketCap it shows:
Bitcoin
capital $118,038,167,261
price $6,962.42
circulating 16,953,612
volume last 24 hrs $4,671,340,000
Bitcoin Cash
capital $11,306,077,844
price $663.06
circulating 17,051,288
volume last 24 hrs $286,801,000
On every count Bitcoin beats Bitcoin Cash so the question arises, what was the point of creating Bitcoin Cash? Apart from making very rich bitcoin holding people even more wealthier by creating Bitcoin Cash and adding to their portfolio it seems that there was no need for it. I hear about transactions fees and groups of devs so on being better at Bitcoin Cash but in all honestly what was the point?
Did all those advocating the demise of Bitcoin actually exchange all their BTC for BCH? I doubt it.
To me it seems Bitcoin was always going to come out on top of that battle so why did those whales pushing for the fork really do it and create Bitcoin Cash?
You have been here long enough to hear the big-block arguments so there is no need to repeat them here. Rather than making a new chain using a source code fork, by also using a fork of the network, you airdrop the new altcoin to existing users of BTC. Users being an important asset to any currency. I'm only trying to explain the reasoning. Some of the users and about 8% of the wealth of the two bitcoins is in BCH.
The value of BTC though is not only the source code and holders but also the developers, exchanges, merchants, validators, hashers, and miners, and spenders. All of which, you don't inherit by splitting the main-chain.
sdp