[paulddraper]

Right. It's like a stock split, except the company actually splits into two essentially identical competitors.

No matter which competitor "wins", your assets should keep the same total value they had before.

[dragonwriter]

Unless the competitors increase the whole market (increasing total value) or—as is plausible with a cryptocurrency with netomwork effects—the lack of a single clear choice reduces the overall value of the market compared to a don't clear choice that everyone uses.

[paulddraper]

Yep. It might not be zero-sum.

[elnygren]

Not quite like a stock split. In stock splits its almost guaranteed that the total valuation is similar.

This is wild, wild cryptoland. At the moment both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash are rising - so a lot of "free" money (at least in the short term.).

For now, two coins is better than one :p

EDIT: allright, Bitcoin Cash has been declining for a few days now. However, it still has quite a bit of value that has not disappeared from Bitcoin's value.

[paulddraper]

Rationally, though, the increase should have happened anyway. Fair point about crytoland though :)