Bitpay going over to Bcash news is concerning for the CC market's flagship coin.
It does highlight the fees / transaction issue starkly. I am still pro-core, but they need to get their shit together now. Segwit was agreed, but it isn't being adopted and isn't even anywhere near a transaction default. Or a default in wallets.
Exchanges are under huge strain, a lot of new weak hands are in, we are one clusterfuck scandal (tether / major exchange issue / legislation FUD / whatever) away from potential dark times the MSM will leap on.
BTC getting Segwit out properly would help. A lot. Sorry to be dark, chaps - Monero is going well, but we ride the waves, we don't control them.
No need to be sorry for being dark, I also feel the same way. But core has nothing to do with SegWit not being adopted. In fact, they always push exchanges and wallets to use the tech and upgrade. Coinbase for example said, "it would only take months to do this and that why is core taking so long?"
So now SW is ready, the real question is, why are people like Coinbase taking so long to upgrade? Electrum has long already upgraded and made their wallets SW ready. I am waiting and waiting to be able to use my SW addresses.
Core cannot force people to change. They are obviously just lazy and have other agendas. Exchanges are the same, end of the day they want the convenient option. What happens when BCH runs into problems? Maybe they go to a BCH fork?