it is so absurd that they keep advertising "Satoshi vision" and talk about being the "original" while they are betraying the first and most important thing in bitcoin which is consensus (that is a part of being decentralized). basically they started the movement that any idiot with 1 to 5% hashrate started creating a fork of bitcoin and called his shitcoin the "real" bitcoin.
what you never see them talk about is how they are showing a middle finger to the "majority" by doing that. it is like if in a country 99% of the population voted for president X but Y were put in the seat of power instead whilst talking about democracy!
not defending ver or wright coin, as they have no big merchant adoption.. but, even the likes of luke JR and greg maxwell admit that the august 2017 event was a TWO WAY SPLIT
to me all this drama is like comparing american dollar with canadian or australian or even zimbabwe dollar. where some cry babies are crying that people dont like others using the word dollar. even though no one should own completely and exclusively the brand dollar, not even USA.
(analogy swap dollar for bitcoin, swap usa for core, swap canada for ver, swap australia for wright)
segwits code is not the same as the pre split code. meaning the post-split code is different. so yes it is a
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and not a
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There she goes, there she goes again. Racing through my brain.
But in all seriousness franky1, why don't you try sending some BitcoinCash to an old Bitcoin address before the fork. You should get out of /r/btc's echo chamber.