Bitcoin Cash is a fork from the original Bitcoin blockchain (BTC). The issue of contention was scaling the blockchain. I am not going to go into all of the details and reasons for contention. The arguments are easily googleable and beyond the scope of this article. I will say, I don’t think Bitcoin Cash is the best solution to scaling.

Who is behind Bitcoin Cash?

Roger Ver a.k.a Bitcoin Jesus is the main advocate of Bitcoin Cash and leader of the BCH project. He was an early adopter of Bitcoin and is worth a ton of bitcoins. His most obvious goal is to see Bitcoin Cash become widely adopted and ultimately I suppose overtake BTC.

Why buying Bitcoin cash before Coinbase debut is a decent bet?

The thesis is fairly obvious:

Most Coinbase users know nothing about crypto and don’t give a shit. What do they do give a shit about is making money. Roger Ver deeply cares about Bitcoin Cash going mainstream. Tomorrow is his chance of getting one step closer to accomplishing this. If the price of Bitcoin Cash plummets on its Coinbase debut, all coinbase users will recognize it as a shitcoin and not want to touch it. However, if it has insane upwards price action, the Coinbase users will likely FOMO into it and entrench the coins power through network effect. Ver is not an idiot and has very deep pockets. Ver knows that he can’t mess up the debut and therefore will probably pump it. We saw a sneak preview of this with today 200% price action before getting Coinbase halted trading due to volatility. Ver’s PR game is strong. He will be on CNBC fast money tomorrow, which has huge media reach. Do you really think he will go on fast money if his coin is going to plummet? I don’t.

Conclusion

Who knows what will happen tomorrow. This is crypto. But I think betting on Ver has a pretty good risk vs return given all that is at stake. It will be fun to see. You can buy Bitcoin Cash under the tickers $BCC or $BCH on many exchanges.