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By design the Bitcoin Cash network upgrades every 6 months. There were some proposed network upgrades that a certain influential mining group led by someone cla

By design the Bitcoin Cash network upgrades every 6 months. There were some proposed network upgrades that a certain influential mining group led by someone claiming to be the creator of Bitcoin disagreed with, and decided to band together with some other large miners to hard fork with their own protocol changes. The changes were mostly around blocksize (the camp that disagreed wanted larger block sizes), how transactions are ordered in a block, and adding/removing certain functions.

berberous 8y ago
I haven't followed the split very closely at all, but "someone claiming to be the creator of Bitcoin" really understates things. That someone is Craig Wright. Craig is _obviously_ not Satoshi (the creator of Bitcoin) -- he is a transparent fraudster, lacks technical understanding, and is unhinged (see his tweets and crazy threatening emails). I think a lot of this is just stemming from Craig's ongoing desire to fraudulently control Bitcoin by claiming to be it's creator (the fork is called "Satoshi's Vision"). I'd stay far away from anything he touches.
- sunshiney 8y ago
  I feel similarly about both CW and RV. This hash war may have been a nice moment of drama diversion but from a professional point of view, it's an awful game to bring to the crypto world and for noobs who have just begun watching.
- dawhizkid 8y ago
  Yes, I've followed his tweets on occasion. I'm not saying I think he is Satoshi. His "unhinged" Twitter behavior is not any more crazy than a certain leader of the free world IMO and on par with the general eccentricities that is crypto right now.
  - berberous 8y ago
    This email is pretty unhinged: https://coinjournal.net/craig-wright-threatens-to-crash-bitcoin-cash-in-email-to-ver/ https://coinjournal.net/craig-wright-threatens-to-crash-bitc... Comparing him to Trump only speaks to the fact that Trump also has issues, not that Craig does not. Moreover, the style of writing/behavior is polar opposite of Satoshi.

berberous 8y ago

I haven't followed the split very closely at all, but "someone claiming to be the creator of Bitcoin" really understates things. That someone is Craig Wright. Craig is _obviously_ not Satoshi (the creator of Bitcoin) -- he is a transparent fraudster, lacks technical understanding, and is unhinged (see his tweets and crazy threatening emails). I think a lot of this is just stemming from Craig's ongoing desire to fraudulently control Bitcoin by claiming to be it's creator (the fork is called "Satoshi's Vision"). I'd stay far away from anything he touches.

sunshiney 8y ago
I feel similarly about both CW and RV. This hash war may have been a nice moment of drama diversion but from a professional point of view, it's an awful game to bring to the crypto world and for noobs who have just begun watching.
dawhizkid 8y ago
Yes, I've followed his tweets on occasion. I'm not saying I think he is Satoshi. His "unhinged" Twitter behavior is not any more crazy than a certain leader of the free world IMO and on par with the general eccentricities that is crypto right now.
- berberous 8y ago
  This email is pretty unhinged: https://coinjournal.net/craig-wright-threatens-to-crash-bitcoin-cash-in-email-to-ver/ https://coinjournal.net/craig-wright-threatens-to-crash-bitc... Comparing him to Trump only speaks to the fact that Trump also has issues, not that Craig does not. Moreover, the style of writing/behavior is polar opposite of Satoshi.