People chose sides and went their separate ways.
Three key figures who went the Bitcoin Cash way include: Roger Ver – An early bitcoin evangelist, best known for finding new ways of saying that Bitcoin Cash is really bitcoin. It might be getting pretty tough by now because he says it a lot. Jihan Wu – Co-founder of the Bitmain miner manufacturer and mining company. Recent signs suggest that his gamble on Bitcoin Cash really, really didn’t pay off .
Things were going swimmingly, and the trio was having a great time bonding over how great it was to have a large block size and how much more like the real bitcoin Bitcoin Cash was than bitcoin.
Then on 13 August, Wright’s company, nChain, announced that it would be forking Bitcoin Cash into something called Bitcoin SV (Satoshi’s Vision), in partnership with the CoinGeek mining pool .
This was rather contentious because the main Bitcoin Cash development team, Bitcoin ABC, was laying out different plans for an upcoming November update.
Now there would either be a hard fork, or one side would have to back down.
The cryptocurrency community enthusiastically welcomed the possibility of another new bitcoin variant and all the Satoshi flavouring accompanying it. Source
Things really heated up on 20 August though, when it was revealed that Jihan Wu called Craig Wright “faketoshi” in a private group chat, commenting that the code proposed for Bitcoin SV seemed a little un-Satoshi-like. Side note: clearly there’s no such thing as private chat in this day and age.
Now Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV are proverbially headed on a collision course, but more literally headed on a diversion course, because fork and all.
It can be reasonably expected that a lot of people are about to get very upset with a lot of other people and that Roger Ver will examine the possibility of cloning himself to follow both forks.
Bitcoin’s about to get more official spinoffs than Law and Order .
If one thing is clear, it’s that there’s a lot of entertainment value to be had, and that the only way every single thing out there could be the real bitcoin is if Satoshi Nakamoto had multiple personalities.
The cultism around bitcoin is really quite fascinating in its own right.
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