To the extent there is a 'civil war', it is not in the mining nor off in the future. It is in the economics of Bitcoin and it is in the now. It is a 'class war' in the sense that what Bitcoin most desperately needs is its own investors, Venture Capitalists.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=45390.0

Otherwise it's just "Bitcoin-to-the-mooooon", aka Bruce Wagner mesmerizing the Bitcoin wealthy while the rest of us break rock for pyramid building, until we're so used up that we drop out.

Bitcoin is bloody brilliant, but without the Bitcoin wealthy being able to see that it is in their own best interest to invest, with major VC Bitcoin, then what I see coming is great swaths of idealists (one after another) falling on their swords for the cause.