Quote from: JorisK on August 01, 2017, 08:26:38 AM

Quote from: sana54210 on August 01, 2017, 05:30:39 AM

I understand BCC/BCH is similar to lumen (but 1:1 ratio based airdrop).
BCC/BCH is just an altcoin is being created with air drop plans based on snap shot of blockchain as of August 1st 2017 12:20 UTC.

Yes, it will be a new altcoin with exact specifications similar to bitcoin but with 8MB block size and with other segwit proposals and finally it will start its life with pre-mined blocks. (pre-mined blocks are being copied from bitcoin's blockchain).

Why big hype on BCC/BCH and how they will survive 51% attack ?

Because Roger Ver and Jihan Wu probably pay trolls to spread out on social web and forms screaming how amazing this new coin is, and how it is going to take over BTC.

It's all a load of horse shit, we'll see in a couple of hours.

Bitcoin is an project without an owner. And is open to everybody. So, anyone can fork it and has been done many times.
What makes this fork especial is the involvement of majority of miners. And it surely done to address their in