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Comment by phillipsjk

You got fooled by a slick marketing campaign.

Around fork time, there was a coordinated push, including websites, subreddits, youtube videos (title of video by jimmy Song interviewing Roger Ver was first known use), and the censored 'bitcoin' forums all calling the fork 'bcash'. One week later, Samson Mow even did a guest column for Forbes magazine[a] mentioning the term. Adam Back later Chastised Cobra for not calling it bcash.

The goal appeared to be two-fold:

1. Strip Bitcoin Cash of the name 2. Frame it as a scam, especially if we take back the name.

a. https://fortune.com/2017/08/07/bitcoin-cash-bch-hard-fork-bl...

"The newly created Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a rushed spinoff of Bitcoin (BTC), a clonecoin of which there have been many in Bitcoin’s past. Because the name is confusing, many have taken to calling it “Bcash” to avoid buyer confusion."

parent phillipsjk 6 years ago

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