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BTC is Bitcoin only because a group of centralized exchanges gave it that ticker
- trompetenaccoun 4y ago"It was fixed." Sure, just like any human thing is fixed following that logic. USB as a standard was fixed. Elections are fixed by the voters. Anything's fixed but it also isn't. Because people can use any Bitcoin version they like. And they don't have to give their money to these exchanges. The only reason they have this power is that users gave it to them. Without the users and followers on social media, they'd be fixing into the void.
- throwaway4good 4y agoBTC Bitcoin is pure math. Digital gold. It came from the ether. The ticker as well.
- billpg 4y agoI wonder how Bhutan feel about their country code being used for Bitcoin. What if they ever decided to switch to a new currency with a name beginning with a C?
- gerikson 4y agoI can't believe Bitcoin Cash dead-enders are still mad about this. You know what ticker they wanted? BCC. But that was already in use by ... Bitcoin Connect, the notorious scam. They also didn't lock in /r/BCH, so it became a haven for anti-BCH trolls.