Must-reads for Nov. 13, 2018: What the fork? The Bitcoin Cash edition

CoinDesk has been on a tear all day Tuesday about the Bitcoin Cash hard fork:

• Opposing Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV Factions’ Debates Grow Heated as the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Draws Closer
• What Fork? Asian Traders Are Buying Bitcoin Cash
• Bitcoin Cash’s ‘Mining War’ Escalates as Blockchain Hard Fork Approaches
• Traders Now Betting 2-to-1 Bitcoin Cash Fork Will Cause Price Decline
• Hash Power Favors Craig Wright Camp in Looming Bitcoin Cash Fork

Plus, they also reported that one of the people in the “hash war”, Jihan Wu, has been stripped of power at Bitmain:

• Bitmain Co-Founder Jihan Wu Loses Executive Power in Board Reshuffle, Says Chinese Media

An interview with Calvin Ayre: The man behind the scenes of the Bitcoin Cash debate (The Block)
Calvin Ayre, the man who became a billionaire running an online gaming company, now runs CoinGeek, Bitcoin Cash’s largest mining pool. He’s backing Craig Wright’s Bitcoin SV and why to The Block.

‘Nuclear Option’: ABC Dev Won’t Rule out Changing Bitcoin Cash PoW Algorithm

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Controversial Bitcoin Cash lead developer Amaury Séchet said on Twitter that Bitcoin ABC developers should “get a patch ready” in case of emergency with the upcoming hard fork. He also tweeted there might be a need to change its proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm: “Changing PoW is somewhat of a nuclear option so I’d be reluctant to use it. But it always has been considered the option of last resort in case a large portion of miner become hostile, so we should be ready.”