The reality is, not everyone here is working on the same “team”. BCash was originally created by and for Jihan Wu, because Segwit would marginalize his companies profits by disabling covert ASICBoost, which is an “improvement” to mining that gave his mining operation significant leverage over others. You can read more about it below, it goes into much better detail:

Jihan knew there was a minority community that wanted to go their own way and used that to his advantage. He actually made it very clear multiple times that Bitcoin is Bitcoin, and BCash is BCash, and they are not to be confused. What happened instead was, that minority community took the new fork and ran with it. Prominent figures tried to capture it and call it The Bitcoin, to which even Jihan fought back and said no:

Meanwhile, the whole time this was happening (all of 2017), the 2X fork was on the horizon, and the very same people who were applauding BCash were simultaneously pushing for 2X to try and divide the Bitcoin community. Read my 2X article for more on that.

So again I ask, why try to block the most important upgrade to the Bitcoin network since its inception? Why play marketing and social media games?

Why spread disinformation & propaganda?

One of the most notable things about the cryptocurrency community is how rapidly it’s growing but how slow the education process is. I’ve learned a lot of what I know by speaking directly to some of the developers, and engaging with many less-involved people like myself, but that obviously doesn’t scale. Lectures are nice, but “nobody” really watches them. Podcasts are good too but they rarely dive deep technically. Looking at all of this from the outside without any knowledge of its inner workings it’s easy to think we have this all squared away, until you read posts like mine and many others that show you just how in its infancy all of this really is.

How many people do you know that are aware of Bitcoin fit this description?

Understands that it’s “a protocol” nobody controls. Knows that people “mine” it. Knows the price goes up and down. That’s it.

I’m willing to bet it’s most of them. Articles like this one I’m writing are okay, but it took 4 months for my first article to reach 20,000 “views”. Most people just don’t want to invest the time, or have the skill-set required to do their own research. On the other hand it took this tweet with a short video a couple of days to reach over 20,000 video views and 100,000 impressions, and that’s still really not that much (and it’s only a short video):

None of this is really surprising though, “nobody” understands how the Internet works. Those who do are less than 1% of the population, and the same will go for Bitcoin’s protocol stack. As the community grows from Bitcoin adoption it stops looking like a community and starts looking like a population with a gradient of opinions, meanwhile the “actual” community keeps chugging along, continuing to discuss and build what Bitcoin was (and still is) intended to be. That inner circle keeps growing, but nowhere near the rate of the outer circles with wildly different opinions.

It does, but that’s because most people aren’t actually part of the “community”, nor do they need to be, or ever will be. There is no “TCP/IP” community that consists of Internet Protocol engineers and the average Facebook user. Let’s take a look at some really over simplified categories of community growth as an example, growing by varying factors:

Putting real-world accuracy aside (Coinbase is just a single platform), do you see what I see? I see 10,000,000 people that can potentially be manipulated into believing false premises and propaganda. How many of them would I have to convince if I wanted to sway enough opinions to appear competitive with the real community? 0.18%. In a room of 1,000 people, I only need to convince 2 of them to believe me and take to Reddit or Twitter. So what do you do to combat that? Maybe you ignore it because you’re unconcerned, maybe you argue with people on social media, or maybe you write an article to inform people.

Those numbers are obviously off, and I’m not interested in anyone trying to challenge them because it detracts from the point. It’s very easy to lie in this space, profit off of it, get called out for it, and then lie again for more profit. People can have no clue what the following arguments mean, but if they are just getting in and they stumble across this they become instantly biased and they have no idea the goalpost was moved 10 times already:

Segwit is a botched fix for a non-issue, Bitcoin can scale with larger blocks. Segwit as a soft-fork is a hack-job and would be much better as a hard-fork, we also need larger blocks. Segwit is being forced on the users who don’t even know what it is, but I’ll take it if it comes with bigger blocks. Lightning Network is vaporware and doesn’t actually exist. Lightning Network won’t be ready for 18 months and even then it’s completely centralized. Lightning Network will be too complicated for the end user experience, and won’t work without bigger blocks. BCash will have Lightning Network too, and BCash has bigger blocks, so it will work better, and we have no Segwit.

Malleability wasn’t the only thing added in with Segwit, and it was never just about Lightning.

Bitcoin Unlimited failed. About 400 of their fake nodes recently shut down too…

There’s no infringement. The patents referenced are owned by Adobe, would effect the entire Internet, and aren’t enforceable. Segwit has nothing to do with this. At best Adobe owns these defensively.

The whitepaper defines an electronic coin as a chain of signatures (section 2). This still exists with Segwit.

Right…

Vitalik supports the Raiden Network (Ethereum’s version of Lightning), and nothing about the Lightning Network changes the security of Bitcoin’s base layer. It only adds features on top of it.

Again…Lightning changes nothing about Bitcoin’s base layer. It only adds features on top of it.

The problem always existed. He just came into this space early, ignorantly spread what he believed to be true, while all the developers knew what would eventually happen. Also, Satoshi conceived of payment channels.

Lightning sucks so bad, but if you like it, you can still have it on BCash! — Roger I never actually said that, this quote is libel. I’m telling my lawyers. — Roger

“More Users” and “More Nodes” are provably false.

Notice his friend Fake Satoshi (Craig) in the bottom right corner? We’ll get back to that later…

Bitcoin Cash can have everything Bitcoin has, plus bigger blocks. As a matter of fact, Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin. Not yet though, but when it is, we can just drop the “Cash” from the name.

That’s why they hate the name BCash. It does exactly the opposite of what they want, it drops “Bitcoin” from the name instead, and they’ve been pushing really hard to try and confuse people with this naming convention. Roger owns Bitcoin.com, and is at the least working with the person who controls the @bitcoin Twitter account, who’s been pushing “BCash is Bitcoin, Bitcoin ‘Core’ is not” as well. Many suspect he controls the account and it isn’t beyond belief because the style of responses are similar, and there’s some other information that points to that conclusion as well. I don’t think any of this information proves this theory correct but again, they are at the least working together:

Roger doesn’t like it when you comment on his tweets with polls because they go against him every time. Don’t believe me? Give it a try, he’ll block you. He’s done it 3 times to me so far. This isn’t a sockpuppet account, this is me being open about who I am, asking simple questions for the community. He claims censorship left and right and publicly takes pride in being for “free and open speech”, so I have no qualms circumventing his choice to block me. The reason I’m showing this information is because what’s really interesting to note is the @bitcoin account blocked me at the same time Roger did, even though this was a fresh account that never interacted with the @bitcoin twitter. What’s even more interesting is, when it became clear that I was going to continue doing this (high visibility polls that go against their narrative), and continue calling out both accounts for simultaneously blocking me, the @bitcoin account announced their “Twitter Blockchain” list, for plausible deniability. They really don’t want you ruining their attempt to confuse you.