I'm not talking about miners. I'm talking about nodes. I'm also referring to internet bandwidth. There are still issues in non-first world countries.
You're free to run whichever version of Bitcoin that you want, but it's clear where developers see the most utility in the present and foreseeable future. There is a reason The Blocksize Wars ended the way they did.
I also don't see any large banks, hedge funds, or intelligent investors placing their bets with Bitcoin Cash. There is good reason for that too.
That's the thing about a free market. Anyone is free to make a better product and there are many projects being worked on.
That I could see through glancing through those links, no cycling attack had been identified and it's only a theory for a potential attack. I've never had an issue or even heard of any from other node runners.
The block size of Bitcoin Cash makes running a node increasingly difficult due to the IBD. Given the same number of blocks, BCH would require approximately 16-32x as much hard drive space, which would also make it incredibly time consuming in areas of low bandwidth, which would de-incentivize node running and therefore, decentralization.
Satoshi discovered a wonderful thing, but he is not the end all, be all regarding Bitcoin. He made many mistakes along the way and with the help of other freedom-minded cypherpunks, was able to solve a lot of problems.
The Lightning Network is not a side chain. It uses Bitcoin scripting itself. It's literally Bitcoin using multisignature channels. Transactions are instant and the fees are pennies or less.
Blockstream did create a side chain, but it's called L-BTC (Liquid). They did not create the Lightning Network.
I'd like to see your proof that Epstein funded Blockstream though.
There are now a large number of people who have figured out, either by "waking up" and/or general concern about the state of our country, that there is more that can be done than those people previously realized (like me) and they have decided to learn court process and start taking matters into their own hands because 99% of lawyers will not be able to really help you. One of the reasons prohibition ended was because of the backlogs of lawsuits filed by citizens, they realized they had to give up. This is what we all need to be doing.
The IRS is just one example. By their own definitions, you are not a taxpayer. In fact, any American Citizen transacting with any other domestic person is not a taxpayer. They have duped us for YEARS.
There are many grounds for the suits: state/federal constitutions, statutory laws, and case law. It does require a lot of reading and there is semantic deceit you must learn to read through, but it's there. A well-known case in some of these groups is that of Steve Emerson out of Florida who sued for property taxes, won ~$38 million and (I think) free utilities for life. His case was sealed, but he has been spreading the word for years about the laws and much of his free information has made its rounds.
Learning this stuff gives you the tools to combat much more than that. It's pretty eye-opening. If you're interested, look up the "Alphonse Faggiolo" Telegram group, but there are also other law groups that branch off from there teaching much of the same stuff. Alphonse is very good at this stuff and I bet he will likely win his case, but he's not the only one.
And none of this is sovereign citizen garbage. This is real law.