Even with a strong group of Bitcoin Cash Developers, BCH is due for some political cleansing
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With competing interests, Bitcoin Cash is lauded as the "hard-fork" of Bitcoin Core developers with plans to increase the block size of the original Bitcoin. As confusing as it is, Bitcoin Cash claims to be the original, while Bitcoin Core supports SegWit implementation for the blockchain.
Roger Ver and other core developers rallied support for Bitcoin Cash pitching against the Bitcoin Core team ever since. Bitcoin Cash has since launched themselves as the 4th cryptocurrency based on its market capitalization priced almost at US$1000 before the recent coin dip.
Bitcoin Cash acceptance as a payment option has been accepted by Dish Network, a US based subscription TV provider. With a large 14 million subscriber network, Dish Network's customers can now pay for subscriptions and movies in Bitcoin Cash.
"We've added bitcoin cash just as we chose to accept bitcoin to serve customers who have adopted a new way of doing business," said Dish executive vice president and COO John Swieringa in a press release.
Source: coindesk - Christine Kim
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In Bitcoin Cash's most recent spat, led to the expulsion of lead creator Amaury Séchet from the BCH Slack community. His proposed idea for a "pre-consensus" solution was met with disagreements from the Bitcoin Cash community, especially Craig Wright. Once again, Bitcoin Cash takes the throne as their political drama spills over into the eyes of the public.
In Craig Wright's most recent tweet he mentioned:
OP_CHECKDATASIGVERIFY is not happening.
If a certain ABC dev wants to push this, then we will just fund replacement Devs. Trust me. There are others.
Miners vote
Think we are not serious.
Watch the Axe fall.@CalvinAyre
Source: twitter - Craig Wright
Craig Wright continued to reply to comments in a really distasteful manner for someone who calls himself Professor. Replies include calling OP_CHECKDATASIGVERIFY a "shitcoin code" as well as asking programmer Javier Gonzalez to shut up by saying, "Let's stop telling people how to act based on your ideas of what we should do."
Wow someone did not exactly have their coffee in the morning just yet. Every minute I spend on "Dr." Craig Wright's twitter makes me think less of him. Similarly, BCH Strategist and BCH Slack moderator Joel Dalais went on to ban Amaury Séchet on their Slack channel for creating a "disturbance". Source: CCN - David Hundeyin.
It definitely goes a LONG way to show true sportsmanship and that Bitcoin developers have the upper hand, while BCH developers are having their dirty laundry hanging out in public. As ridiculous as it gets, Bitcoin Core developer had to swoop in for a big save in Bitcoin Cash's latest hashing vulnerability.
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Cory Fields, a Bitcoin core developer for the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, anonymously tipped Bitcoin Cash developers of their code bug. on Cory Field's medium post, Fields recounted his identification of the SIGHASH_BUG; that could result in a "chain split".
While looking through Bitcoin ABC’s change-logs earlier this year, I noticed that one of the most critical pieces of transaction validation had been refactored. (...) I thought it reasonably likely that a bug might have slipped in, and so I went looking. It took less than 10 minutes to find SIGHASH_BUG.
Source: medium - Cory Field
Civic CEO Vinny Lingham commended Field's efforts tweeting that "Responsible and ethical behavior by everyone in the community, regardless of ideological beliefs, should be applauded." Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, retweeted Lingham's tweet. Source:
mashable - Stan Schroeder.
Developer Jimmy Song and economist Tuur Demeester also highlighted the event while this has also led to commentator WhalePanda tweeting: "Once again Core devs had to save BCash. Play stupid games…" Source: bitcoinist - Wilma Woo.
Why watch TV drama when the crypto news is as sensational as it gets?