By jimmysong.substack.com on September 17, 2020
BCH was created back in 2017 initially as a way to permanantly split in case UASF gained traction. Despite the New York Agreement activation of Segwit on the network, they decided to split anyway and created the first hard fork of Bitcoin. As the code had to be created quickly, there wasn’t much in the way of decentralization in the hard fork.