All three blockchains use the same hashing function and throughout the year, BSV miners suffered the worst according to the Binance report. “In less than a year, an estimated $12-13 million could have potentially been collected by Bitcoin SV miners, if they were acting rationally in their mining resource allocation,” the study notes. “In comparison, BSV total mining rewards (assuming miners selling BSV coins at the end of each business day) were around $75 million over the same period. As a result, this potential opportunity cost represents around 16-17% of the total BSV mining revenue over the period.”
Following the report from Binance Research, another post was published the next day by the Bitgo developer known as Murch in regard to the upcoming BSV chain fork. According to the post, Bitgo is urging BSV users to withdraw BSV from the company’s platform because Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH) outputs will soon be invalidated. This is because, on February 4, 2020, BSV is planning to upgrade with the “Genesis Hard Fork,” which plans to remove P2SH. “Since Bitgo’s BSV wallets use P2SH-based multi-signature addresses, the protocol change will render Bitgo BSV wallets unable to receive funds,” Bitgo’s notice detailed. Murch writes that starting February 4, 2020:
The Bitgo developer insisted that clients holding BSV with the company’s wallet need to either “convert BSV holdings to [BTC]” or “move BSV funds to an external wallet.” “If you continue holding BSV in your Bitgo wallet after February 4th, you will only be able to sweep the wallet and most functionality will be disabled,” the Bitgo representative concluded. After the Bitgo post published many people discussed the subject on social media and a few BSV supporters criticized Bitgo’s actions. Other members of the crypto community disagreed with BSV proponents who complained about the de-listing and believed that Bitgo made a logical decision.
“BSV cultists act like it’s totally out of the blue that them sunsetting P2SH was a bad idea,” said Cointext CTO Vin Armani on Twitter. “Like somehow Bitgo is at fault.” Despite the widespread P2SH support, The Bitcoin Association, an organization that promotes BSV, published a blog post that said the entity was “disappointed that Bitgo will discontinue their support of Bitcoin SV.” The company added:
It is unfortunate that the various Bitcoin ecosystems have grown accustomed to using the obscure P2SH method of doing multi-sig transactions.
What do you think about Binance Research explaining that BSV miners mine at a loss? What do you think about Bitgo depreciating BSV support after February 4, 2020? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.
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