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It's newer, less well recognized in general, and as far as a government Bitcoin node is concerned it does not exist. Bitcoin's case on not being a security is possibly based on the low likelihood of future incompatible changes and its track record and age.

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It's exactly the same age as Bitcoin. What's a government Bitcoin node?

> It's exactly the same age as Bitcoin.

Don't be disingenuous. Bitcoin Cash didn't exist prior to 2017, when it forked from Bitcoin.

…though the Bitcoin Cash blockchain has valid txns going back to 2009 just like BTC. Everyone wants answers that are black and white, cut and dry. The world is a lot more grey.

If anyone, using your definition of coin age, can create a 14 year old crypto currency instantly, then clearly your definition is not useful.

> though the Bitcoin Cash blockchain has valid txns going back to 2009 just like BTC

By this logic, the U.S. dollar is millennia old, since it grafted onto an economy that used older currencies still on its adoption.

You need to read up on how blockchains work.

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