My main reason for posting was your description of Bitcoin Cash and Segwit2x as "just another altcoin", which any sober analysis would find to be a large mischa

My main reason for posting was your description of Bitcoin Cash and Segwit2x as "just another altcoin", which any sober analysis would find to be a large mischaracterization of the situation. These forks are a product of many years of intense, relentless debate on scaling, and as we have seen quite clearly today, have legitimate economic backing. The situation is fairly complex, and I'm not completely unbiased. I don't know exactly what is going to happen. But Bitcoin Cash is very clearly not some generic altcoin.