Bitcoin : Serious question: Since this sub is in support of BCH, … Why is it called r/BTC?
Before you downvote, consider that I (and people like me) am/are sitting on the fence, so a well thought out response can go much farther to garner additional support, rather than turning this into a witch hunt.
So I understand that the knee jerk reaction is going to be “Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin”, and I understand that a valid argument for that can be made that Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision leans more on the side of upscaling block sizes more than it does introducing segwit and the lightning network.
I guess my point is that it would be more honorable to make the (valid) argument that BCH can potentially overcome BTC in terms of ease of use and utility as a currency, BUT NOT push the agenda that it’s THE Bitcoin. It’s a philosophical point, I know, but as someone getting their feet wet in crypto, it’s peculiar to see a community set their primary message not as, “we are BETTER than xyz because a + b + c” but, “We’re trying to take down xyz and take it’s place”.
This may not be weird when you’re looking at it from the inside because I feel like I genuinely understand (at least somewhat) the sentiment behind the community, but, if this were, let’s say, a foot race with Usain Bolt, and a new competitor from his camp, people would be hesitant to support the Challenger if he just made the claim that he WAS Usain Bolt, rather than if he just said he’s faster than Usain Bolt (and then went on to prove it).
At face value it doesn’t seem genuine to have an entire community base itself on this ideal of idol replacement, especially when you consider the whole bitcoin,com thing and even the r/BTC sub name when the ticker isn’t even BTC.
And yeah, I just saw a post about how there are people dumb enough to buy BCH instead of BTC accidentally when they go on Bitcoin,com but are somehow expected to be smart enough to set up a lightning network node if they and up buying BTC. I feel that even if you sell someone a better product when they’re expecting a different one is disingenuous, especially because none of us know where this will all end up.
As a clearer real life example, I subbed here because I thought it was about, well…BTC. I decided to stay because I’m always curious if other points of view, but I can’t lie and say I didn’t have a, “what the fuck, I came here for BTC!” reaction.
As a sidenote, it’s a little unsettling that Roger Ver was also sentenced prison time in the past. Like I get that it was for something unrelated to crypto but it was still based on profiting on illegal ventures. I don’t think there’s any positive way to spin that…
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to be convinced that BCH will be the future, but I want to support BCH because it’s BCH (and fuck it, Bcash just flows off the tongue better) but not because it’s literally trying to take the place of a coin all together (be that either philosophically or literally, doesn’t matter).
(I’ll also take the time here to say that, yes, I love that the stress test went really well and that confirmations on transactions happen cheap and fast, this isn’t all bad)
EDIT: Just informed that r/BTC was formed before r/BCH, but why not gather in r/BCH?
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