I don't write much but I read volumes of social media each day and it's obvious to me that the Blockstream experience of high fees and slow confirmations is pushing more and more people to investigate alternatives. Beneficiaries of that are a host of alt coins including, prominently, Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash. A (more neutral than I am) friend said to me today that he'd transacted on both the BTC and BCH blockchains several times in recent weeks and, based on that experience, he was "getting on the BCH bandwagon too". He summarized the BTC situation succinctly by saying: