You certainly don’t appear to be of the age where this should really be a concern. I had it, not fun, but think the shots are being pushed on a great number of people where it doesn’t provide a net benefit.
But a spherical shape exists in nature. Apart from the stem, many fruits and berries are shaped like that. Pomegranate is one example. Wouldn’t is be reasonable that they would be able to describe a shape such as a sphere since they could see it?
Failure is not final. You can take what you have learned and do as River suggests. Hopefully you can one day look back and see your journey has been a success.
I knew that CSW wasn't involved in the original BCH fork, but did not know that he had another plan that failed. Is that recorded somewhere that is easy to point to (for curiosity)?
WP only talks about attacker chains and when two blocks get mined at the same time. It does not address the situation where the core team changes things and a second group strongly disagrees. The fork was because they believed the core team did void vision
Honest nodes in the WP did not consider the possibility of a fork being required to remain true to the original vision. Raising the block size always was going to require a hard fork.
The claim I hear the loudest is the chain of signatures. BTC broke that with segwit. I guess for me it is the lack of additions to the protocol though. I don’t have a deep enough knowledge to pick a single element as most important.
If you were to break the WP up into N statements and compare the 3 chains against each statement, BTC would win? I would say that BTC developers have instituted code that diverges the chain away from the WP so even with the most POW it is something else.