It has come time where the Bitcoin Cash community is now on the cusp of its first test of Nakamoto consensus. For those of you who don't know Nakamoto consensus is the term used to describe the way of deciding which fork chain in case of a competing one, wins out. This is simply a matter of which one is longer, or contains the most proof of work. The first hard fork which broke BCH away from BTC, Nakamoto consensus was not allowed to occur because simply the communities did not want consensus. They wanted to split away. However, since that first "Independance fork" there has been a subsequent upgrade hard fork in May of 2018 which executed without any fanfare or drama. That was because there was developer consensus on what was going to be in the upgrade. However, this November will be different. This November will be the first hard fork upgrade in which the developer groups are not in agreement with what should be in the upgrade, and thus, this will be the first contentious upgrade. (note, not a contentious FORK, which is a splitting of the chain) This contentious upgrade will mean that the clients will start gathering support leading up to the upgrade flag date, and hopefully a majority will form around one client or the other. And if that does not happen, on the fork date, there will be a temporary 'hash vote' where the side which has the most hashpower will run the longest chain, and the minority chain will suffer delayed confirmations, which should presumably incentivize miners and businesses on the minority fork to upgrade to join the majority.