[viraptor]

> whereby to create one source of value, another has to be destroyed.

Bitcoin cash would like a word, I expect. Sure, the value of both currencies would drift down until ~the same total value is achieved initially (or some approximation of that), but after a while, we essentially multiplied the value without destroying Bitcoin it was created from.

[tlrobinson]

It’s impossible to know what would have happened if there was no fork. Maybe BTC would be at $50k right now, and the fork actually net destroyed value.