If you want to use your crypto currency as cash today, the answer is Litecoin, not BCH. 2.5-minute block times instead of 10 minutes! Cheap, stable, tried and true. No con artists running it. If it's good enough for being used at HCPP, it's good enough for you.
Fun side effect of #hcpp17: as you can only pay in BTC and LTC, and paying for coffee in BTC would be silly right now, it's probably the biggest Litecoin-onboarding event ever.
I find the fact that Litecoin is activating SegWit soon much more relevant for our future than who becomes the next ruler of $nationState.