Ver vid for the 134613th time
Okay, I think you've made your point. We've all seen it now. Take it down a notch, maybe?
The hole Roger dug himself into was thinking he can decide what bitcoin is. That's not how it works.
the thing is. reverse psychology your own statement
can theymos say that bitcoin core protocol is "bitcoin"
the truth is that theymos promoting core is the exact same argument as ver promoting cash.
No single individual can redefine what Bitcoin is when there are countless users around the world who already know what it is. You need those users to agree with your usage of the name, or it's inevitable you're going to face a backlash. So it's not the exact same argument at all. You have a tendency to blame the individual for circumstances that are borne of the actions of the many. You can't blame theymos for the fact that the majority of users agree with him. That's just how it is. If the users didn't agree with theymos, he too would face a backlash for attempting to steal the name from the users.
There's a double standard involved here, too. Could you imagine if bitcoin.org
did promote both chains, but insisted on calling the BCH chain "bcash" on their site? Just visualise the total meltdown Roger Ver would have then. That would be poor form on the part of bitcoin.org, because that chain isn't called "bcash" and BCH users generally don't want it to be called that. The same applies in reverse, so bitcoin.com shouldn't be calling the BTC chain "bitcoin core" against the wishes of BTC users because that's equally poor form.
There's nothing stopping you from calling it Bitcoin Core if that's how you want to distinguish it from Bitcoin Cash, but you're going to need to accept the fact that all the BTC users who have literally zero interest in buying or spending BCH don't
need to make that distinction. It's inevitable they're going to keep calling the two chains "Bitcoin" and "Bitcoin Cash". And that's literally your best case scenario here, because if you piss the BTC users off by trying to change their chain's name without their consent, they're all going to start calling Bitcoin Cash "bcash" instead. I haven't so far, but if you keep forcing this utter futility of yours, I just might start.
You call it what you want, we're calling it Bitcoin. End of.
to me its jsut far easier to avoid any debate, argument, misinterpretation and issues by saying when someone asks for bitcoin. you reply cash or core
much like when someone asks for dollar you ask US or canadian
Do you walk into your local British shops and ask "
Is that the Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian or British Pound?"
Of course you fucking don't. You'd only ask about those pounds if you specifically wanted to use those particular currencies. If we're not transacting in BCH, we don't need to make any distinction. So give up with the bullshit already. You call it what you want. We'll call it what we want. And I assure you we won't be calling it anything other than Bitcoin or BTC.
