Bitcoin was, as we can see from the whitepaper, intended to be a digital peer-to-peer currency used for daily transactions. As its popularity grew and price surged, the blockchain experienced scalability issues. Transaction fees and time required for sending BTC went up.
BTC was becoming more an investment vehicle than everyday currency.
On a surface level, this situation was caused by the maximum block size limit. Each block contains a number of transactions and is limited in megabytes of space - 1 MB. Proponents of the main BTC fork, including large pools and companies making up 80% of the network mining power, advocated against increasing block size, instead pushing for Segregated Witness, or SegWit, which reduced the amount of data in the main portion of each block.
BCH was created by miners and developers who felt SegWit didn't address the problem adequately and its implementation was far from transparent.
"Major proponents of Bitcoin Cash, such as Roger Ver, often invoke Nakamoto’s original vision of a payment service as a reason to increase the block size.
According to them, the change in bitcoin’s block size will enable bitcoin’s use as a medium for daily transactions and help it compete with multinational credit card processing organizations, such as Visa, which charge high fees to process transactions across borders."
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin-cash.asp
Nowadays, we can see that BCH allows for platforms like read.cash and noise.cash to exist 100% on-chain, whereas Bitcoin developers seek off-chain remedies like Lightning network. Good luck sending tiny amounts like $0.01 with your BTC wallet, haha!
I hope to see more platforms that offer BCH.. Or simple games to earn BCH.. Btw, thanks for sharing this shortened tale of BCH.. And as always, thanks for the upvotes. ☺️