[SilasX]

BCH is frequently more profitable than BTC -- the mining power constantly oscillates between the two.

Checkout fork.lol which tracks DARI, an estimate of the profitability of mining the coin, you see how the more profitable one frequently switches:

https://fork.lol/reward/dari/btc

[rory096]

This is of course not surprising - in the long run all difficulties (for similarly hashed coins) should trend towards equalizing profitability lest they create an arbitrage opportunity. The driving factor in the grandparent's case was the short-term spike in BCH after it was listed on Coinbase.

[nosuchthing]

Not entirely. There was a flaw/feature in the difficulty algo for BTC Cash that allowed miners to generate a significant quantity of blocks very rapidly.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-cash-hard-fork-plans-update...

[chocolatebunny]

well that's an interesting top level domain.