Really great write up. I've been thinking for the past few days how much Bitcoin Cash seems similar, from a technical perspective, to the original Satoshi vision (increase blocksizes as needed to keep the mempool free, "digital cash" for quick/cheap transactions, security built into each block, not pushed off to some other layer, etc). I try to avoid all the personality drama involved and just focus on the technical realities and what miners are choosing with their hashing power. That said, your write brings another interesting perspective in terms of needing a "world reserve cryptocurrency" of sorts where people can price every other asset against. I wonder, is this just a temporary phase as people figure out the new paradigm of money as language? What if we don't need a pyramid structure but evolve to a free-flowing dynamic system like language? But I guess even in language we need base concepts like nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

The comparison you make to litecoin is a good one. Just as some may argue Bitcoin Cash is closer to the original digital cash vision, the same might be said for litecoin. I've always thought of litecoin as a silly copycat, but maybe that was short-sighted.

Again, great write up. Thank you.