This year has been a tumultuous one, especially for Bitcoin. Different groups within Bitcoins original community have not been able to even remotely agree on which protocol should be implemented in order to solve Bitcoins scalability problem. One particular group felt strongly that bigger blocks were the solution to the problem and so hard forked away from the original Bitcoin blockchain to create Bitcoin Cash (BCH).
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https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2017/11/roger-ver-declares-bitcoin-cash-true-bitcoin/Seems to me that team Roger ver were the people behind sudden upsurge of bitcoin. Undoubtedly Roger was the very first person to acknolwedge the beauty of bitcoin. He must be with BCH for a solid reason. Saying this I completely agree that bitcoin could lose its decentralization potential if it continues to stay the same way. Block size is filling up fees are increasing. We might just end up becoming puppets of mining companies. As the price of bitcoin is increasing fees like 200sats/byte mean around $2-3 which makes it difficult for transacting small amounts. We need a different protocol for sure.