ABC is keeping the Bitcoin-transaction-history, but its economic & security models are diverging; Ryan X Charles summarised it accurately `ABC is Amaury's pet-project`
divergence of legal, economic & security models has escalated since he said that; things are different now... Amaury is changing validation-rules more often than socks
BCH adoption is so tiny right now that the fork doesn't matter; imo Ryan chose the conservative-side, the one that is likely to survive the incoming ICO collision with the governments