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There's also the other Bitcoin, BCH, which suffers from basically none of the problems you listed.

If a 51% attack was actually lucrative then shouldn't at least some miners attempt it given that BTC hash-power is about 100X that of BCH?

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It suffers from all the same problems. The only advantage it has is that they chose a slightly larger arbitrary constant. It still does not and can not scale. One order of magnitude makes little difference when we're dealing with something that is four orders of magnitude slower and four orders of magnitude more power-hungry than the competition.

100 maximum transactions per second is still orders of magnitude too low to be useful on a daily basis outside of niche uses (read: drugs). Ten minutes confirmation time is still orders of magnitude worse than credit cards or cash.

Obviously, what we need is the REAL Bitcoin from the confirmed legitimate Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin SV.

>Obviously, what we need is the REAL Bitcoin from the confirmed legitimate Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin SV.

This is sarcasm right?

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