Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Blockstream, Samson Mow, openly advocated a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporter and his wife be jailed. Mow’s comments were made after he highlighted a report, citing him as a source, industry competitors were laying off employees during the holiday season. The BCH enthusiast chided Mow for seemingly cheering the loss of employment, and the Blockstream CSO then responded with legal threats.

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Blockstream’s CSO Urges Jail for BCH Proponent and His Wife

“That’s not cheering,” Blockstream COS Samson Mow tweeted. “You’ll see real cheering when you and your wife go to jail for using @CNBCFastMoney to pump and dump #Bcash on noobs. @SEC_Enforcement.”

The comment was directed at Paul Wasensteiner, head of the Bitcoin Cash Association, who had earlier wondered aloud about what he believed were persons such as Mow taking strange delight in recent layoff news, “Crypto – The only industry that has people cheering with glee when people lose their jobs over Christmas.”

Conspiracy theories, about he and his wife colluding to promote BCH on the popular financial network, were started late last year by BTC partisans who view the mere existence of Bitcoin Cash as an attack.

BCH Opponents Often Urge Legal Sanction

Wasensteiner within the BCH community is known as a tireless worker for aiding projects and people who seemingly need peer-to-peer digital cash the most, such as those in Venezuela. According to CoinSpice research, neither he nor his wife have ever been formally accused of any wrong doing.

Bitcoin Cash was essentially created Summer of last year in what many observers believe is the first and only successful contentious hard fork. Bitcoin Core (BTC) supporters, such as Mow and Blockstream, advocated for smaller blocks alongside other innovations as being more important than adoption or digital cash, and often referred to BTC as a store of value similar to gold.

During the BCH hard fork turned hash war of this year, BTC proponents covertly, and some overtly, aligned with Bitcoin SV (BSV) advocates, appearing on YouTube shows together, exchanging emails of strategy, presumably under the rubric of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. They also have employed similar threats of legal sanction, lawsuits, and both openly and heartily support government intervention into crypto.

Source: Twitter

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