The crypto related news website, Bitcoin.com has changed the way it publishes information after a group of users joined forces to file a fraud suit against it.
For some time now, Roger Ver, a crypto enthusiast who became a millionaire by investing in Bitcoin (BTC), has been promoting a fork he is a part of BCH – known as Bitcoin Cash or BCash.
According to him, BCH is the coin which remains true to the original Bitcoin Whitepaper of being a P2P electronic cash system, so he has taken on the task of promoting BCH in a way that practically the entire ecosystem – with the exception of the BCH holders – has described as unethical. On websites, apps, wallets and social media, he has worked on renaming some cryptos; BTC is, according to him, “Bitcoin Core” and BCH is “Bitcoin”.
This practice has resulted in serious monetary losses[1] for many (especially for newbies), who have sent money from their Bitcoin wallets to some BCash wallets believing it to be the original currency.
The issue is further aggravated since Ver’s website is one of the first search results of “Bitcoin” on Google, and its wallet appears as the first choice when searching for “how to buy bitcoin”.
One of the practices for which he has become famous is to change the name of BTC and to take the change of name to BCH as “offensive.” This has been criticized on many occasions but was especially evident in an interview with John Carvalho[2] for the channel Bitcoin Error Log, in which he ended the interview by giving the interviewer the finger. The interviewer referred to BCH as “Bcash” and constantly referred to BTC as Bitcoin
