#Stellar News Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Community Splits Over Craig Wright’s Intention to Fork the Coin
Craig Wright announced his intentions to bring his own version of Bitcoin Cash closer to the Bitcoin 1.0 vision, leaving the community expecting a hard fork. by Christine Masters , 3 hrs ago Subscribe
Craig Wright , known for claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin, is now after Bitcoin Cash (BCH) . He has shared his own vision of the crypto asset’s future and potential features, which does not coincide with the plan of the Bitcoin ABC developer team to evolve BCH quickly with regular updates.
“Something people fail to understand about bitcoin is it is intentionally limited in what it can do and how it can be changed. This is purposeful. Bitcoin is designed to be stable money and for that reason it is not designed to have new opcodes added outside the need for a few security-based replacements or to be altered,” stated Wright in a recent blog .
Wright expressed an opinion that fast and active changes to the code of Bitcoin Cash are not necessary.
He also envisions BCH as the real Bitcoin, is supporting it for that reason, and therefore demanding a more conservative version.
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has suggested that Wright’s potential fork may be dismissed by BCH proponents:
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1032075153788817408
Cobra, the founder of the Bitcointalk forum, has expressed some support for the conservative approach to running the Bitcoin Cash network.
He has expressed dissatisfaction with Amaury Sechet, also known as @deadalnix, for rushing through changes in the code. The criticism arrives just a day after Bitcoin ABC released the code that will be mandatory and put in force after a November 15 hard fork.
The Bitcoin Cash community has varying opinions on the approach and effect of Dr. Craig Wright. While some believe he is a valuable source of direction for BCH, others consider him a fraud and a liability for the project.
Some positive opinions point to Wright’s support of smart contracts on the BCH network:
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