How many Bitcoin chains we will see in December?
I believe that there will be at least 4 Bitcoin chains around December:
1) Bitcoin Cash.
2) segwit 2x HF — I believe it will be recognized as “Bitcoin” by most businesses and exchanges and it will have the biggest marketcap.
3) core emergency difficulty adjustment HF chain (will be deployed as an emergency measure by Core, after it will be apparent that the legacy chain can’t survive because the blocks are being mined too slow and the exchanges are de-listing the legacy chain).
4) Die hard Core supporters will continue to transact on the old core legacy chain, with very low hash-power. This chain marketcap will be negligible, the blocks will be signed extremely slow. It might not survive at all.
In addition, I believe there will be at least one such chains:
5) Some Core supporters will launch a kind of “Bitcoin Cash” alt of their own with GPU based POW.
Bitcoin Cash biggest advantage is clarity vs Bitcoin.