Wow, I had no idea the distribution was happening so far from the official fork. Also the whole keeping 1%, how can they do that?

I'm also confused how one miner can initiate a fork of Bitcoin, I thought stuff like that was arrived at by consensus.

ASIC miners from the system, thereby attracting more people to the cryptocurrency.

Really? I have no idea what an ASIC miner is and I'm guessing that's fairly representative of the population at large. Perhaps it will bring more miners to the currency.

So ultimately I guess my question is; is our beloved Bitcoin still the same?

Thanks for this very informative piece by the way; great way to start my day :-)

Cg