Many articles have announced that Bitcoin Cash, the proposed fork of Bitcoin, will go by the ticker symbol BCC. However if you look at the top coins from Coinmarketcap you can clearly see that the ticker is already in use.

So the question is can Bitcoin Cash use the ticker, if it is already in use by a top 11 coin? Why is Bitcoin Cash not called BTCC instead?

Considerations for any fork of BTC

Since Bitcoin is reliant on miners for network security, how many miners will decide to mine this new coin? If not many miners choose to mine this coin, but many very powerful ASIC miners exist that could mine it, it is very possible to conduct 51% attacks more easily on this new coin. Will we see an effort of real Bitcoin miners to try and sabotage the security of this new coin by trying a 51% attack?