Major Cryptocurrency price tracking site CoinMarketCap[1] (CMC) has removed the website Bitcoin.com[2] from its Bitcoin (BTC) page[3] as of today, May 6. Though there was no official announcement from CMC, the price tracker removed Bitcoin.com as BTC’s secondary website evidently in the wake of recent allegations[4] that Bitcoin.com was misleading customers into buying Bitcoin Cash[5] (BCH) instead of Bitcoin.
According to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine[6], Bitcoin.com still appeared on CMC as Bitcoin’s “Website 2” on May 2.
At press time, CMC refers to Bitcoin.org[7] as the single website listed for Bitcoin.
The crypto wallet and media service Bitcoin.com was started[8] by crypto investor and major BTC-turned-BCH-proponent Roger Ver[9]. After the Bitcoin blockchain was hard-forked[10] to create Bitcoin Cash in August 2017, Bitcoin.com launched a crypto wallet that automatically creates both BTC and BCH accounts[11], with Bitcoin Cash appearing first as the default option.
By press time, Bitcoin.com still offers[12] users BCH as default, keeping BTC as a second option, confusingly called “Bitcoin Core”, the name of BTC’s software client.
On April 27, a group of pro-BTC users created a site to raise funds for a lawsuit alleging[13] that Bitcoin.com was intentionally misleading users into buying BCH instead of BTC. However, shortly after, the movement’s initiator announced[14] that they were not able to gather sufficient funds to file a lawsuit, and refunded those who donated to the cause.
Earlier today, Cointelegraph reported[15] that former Wall Street executive Michael Novogratz[16] weighed in on the battle between BTC and BCH for the
