bitcoin = BTC
Bitcoin Cash = BCH
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE, YA DINGUS!
Bitcoin is bitcoin while Bitcoin Cash is simply another altcoin that is trying to cash in on the good name of bitcoin.
Let's stop trying to pretend they're the same thing. Its an absolute travesty that whoever runs bitcoin.com would publish an article stupid enough trying to say they are the same thing, when they most clearly ARE NOT.
Here's a couple other reasons:
Was Bitcoin Cash founded by Satoshi Nakamoto? NO.
Do _any_ merchants that you can think of off the top of your head actually accept BCH? NO.
Will merchants be more likely to accept BCH in the future, now that they've just barely wrapped their heads around the concept of bitcoin and begun to integrate payment acceptance mechanisms for it? NO!
This is by far the biggest and most sinister pump job of an altcoin I've ever seen. If you're gonna make your own coin, at least come up with your own damn name! BCH reeks of unoriginality and is greed at its worst. This kind of behavior is what turns off the general public from wanting to get involved in crypto in the first place.
Critics what say ye? I'm all ears.
It is a common knowledge even before that we got BitcoinCash (BCH) into the scene: There will always be Bitcoin and it is no other than Bitcoin; all the rest are just called as altcoins even including Ethereum which many considered to be the top heir to the throne in case something can really go wrong with Bitcoin.
Anybody can call daisy a rose but everybody knows what can be the truth. No pronouncement from anybody could ever alter that reality...the same thing here with Bitcoin and all the altcoins that can come because of the hard fork. In fact, we have new coins all because the Bitcoin decision makers could not unite themselves on what to do and they let their business interest took the reign of their deciding power rather than what can be the best interest for the whole Bitcoin community.
Anyway, since am gonna receive my BitcoinGold too (later to be sold and converted to the real Bitcoin) then am not that complaining that much...in fact am smiling also just like you.