The BCH crew were very stupid to attempt to kill BTC while it's been on a pretty much unbroken months-long bull run, even more so with all the institutional talk swirling around.
Actually in light of all the institutional talk lately, their attack is starting to make more sense to me now. They knew that they had one final last ditch effort to win over some 'hearts and minds' to a BCH or 2X version of Bitcoin, before the CME group started firing up on 12/14 and trading Bitcoin
TM futures next year.
I don't think it worked, it looks like a massive fail to me. They have lost a lot of believers to their scam. And next year if Bitcoin
TM's price continues to climb, winning over even more new people and more institutional investors, then it will remain more profitable to mine.