Craig, chief scientist at nChain, and his doyen Calvin, threatened "hashwar", which they explained involved re-orging, double-spending exchanges, and stopping all trade on Bitcoin Cash for years as they saw fit.
[...]Nobody would've had a problem if they'd said "hey, we'll fork off to our own coin, and do our own (BSV) thing".
Except we haven't shown any interest in attacking your chain, unlike the reverse situation (both from BTC and BSV against BCH).
can you please explain just how BSV attacked BCH? was it an attack, or the perception of an attack? for in any case, no, CSW did not threaten to stop all trade on Bitcoin Cash for years as they saw fit. that is a mischaracterization.
what CSW said, prudently, was that there should be no expectation of economic activity for two years
on the BSV chain. a corollary is that the "organic growth" narrative would no longer apply to BSV.
and this is indeed what has happened. BSV prioritized infrastructure development in preparation for exponential microtransaction growth. it is delivering on both, while delaying proselytization to end users.
technicalities aside, BSV has certainly forked off to do its own thing. the alternative was to have their long-in-the-making, well-considered plan vetted by ABC. we in BU can relate -- except that BU has put nothing behind this project like the extraordinary resources put forth by nChain and Ayre in the deployment of BSV. (while nChain is being granted patents that were applied for long before the BTC/BCH split, BU members are beginning to discuss the desirability of holding IP.)
Good thing that you're now free to buy whatever you want.
Competition leads to better products.
agreed.