Lightning Network solution, is it really any different than the current system we have in place already with banks and intermediaries or is there something new here I am not seeing?
In my mind, Lightning Network is very similar to Hawala: If you can't pay the recipient directly, you can get your friend, or friend's friend to make the payment.
What is the real deal behind BCH and BTC? Searched a lot on this one and seems the evidence points at BCH as being the original but maybe that is just all of the hype and money behind it?
BTC was approaching a fork in the road - it needed to scale to handle more transactions. BCH forked off first with the plan of scaling via bigger blocks. BTC forked off later with changes to enable scaling via a second layer network (Lightning Network.) Neither coin is the original. In short, BCH chose the simple short term fix, BTC chose the complex long term fix.