Bitcoin Cash [BCH] proponent Roger Ver responds to the friction within the community

Bitcoin Cash [BCH] proponent Roger Ver responds to the friction within the community

On 28th August, a YouTube channel broadcast an interview with Roger Ver, the Founder of the popular cryptocurrency news portal, Bitcoin.com. During the interview, he spoke about the contention within the Bitcoin Cash community, big challenges for Bitcoin Cash, criticisms surrounding the team and more.

There has been much disagreement and clashes among the community members of Bitcoin Cash, leading to a split planned for November. The interviewer compared the situation to the former times of the Bitcoin Core community that resulted in the creation of Bitcoin Cash.

Regarding this, Ver referred to the censorship attacks made by the members of Bitcoin Core at that of Bitcoin Cash. He said the solution to a disagreement is to have more speech, not less of it, which is not the approach followed by the original Bitcoin community. Furthermore, he mentioned:

“So even within Bitcoin.com we’ve had our website constantly attacked, we’ve had our Bitcoin cached nodes attacked, we’ve had all the Email boxes of our employees attacked by having them signed up for tens of thousands of email spam addresses so we can’t even use our company email. That’s not the appropriate way to deal with people in civil society but that’s what we’ve seen happening.”

The Bitcoin.com CEO also claimed that he would openly condemn such acts of censorship and conflict if they were executed by his own Bitcoin Cash community. However, in his opinion, the cases of latter have been much lesser than those of the former.

Next, the two discussed the roadmap for Bitcoin and the challenges expected to hinder the route in 2018. Here, Ver repeated, as he has stated on many occasions that he will push the idea of the adoption of BCH as money forward, to as many groups as possible. Subsequently, his goal is to spread the word that Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin. He added that he will work tirelessly to achieve this aim with BCH, as he did with Bitcoin.

The interview then switched to a different subject where Ver was asked about his public price prediction videos made in the past on Bitcoin. Back in 2011, Ver recounts making a bet that Bitcoin would outperform the price of gold, silver and the US stock market by more than a hundred times, across a span of two years. He explained:

“At that time, it was very very clear that was going to be the case and in reality, it didn’t quite do it… But I could look at the market. There was only one cryptocurrency at that point. There was only Bitcoin and its market cap was a couple million bucks, maybe 10 million bucks at the time… There were no competitors, of course it was gonna do fantastically well. Whereas now the Bitcoin community has been shattered into a thousand and one different altcoins.”

Lastly, Ver also got a shot at explaining himself regarding the statement made by him about babies dying due to less economic freedom. Here, he narrated his philosophy and stated that he abides by the statement as those were only facts, and anybody who disagrees may brush up on their economics before doing so.

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