Vitalik Buterin States that Bitcoin Cash is Not Bitcoin

In a recent tweet Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) should not be confused.

”Bitcoin Cash is not Bitcoin”, he said in a tweet from February 1, responding to Brad Mills who blamed him for advertising Bitcoin Cash.

There are several tweets which hint that Buterin is not 100% against BCH, but he made a clear distinction between BTC and BCH back in 2017.

Vitalik Buterin and Bitcoin Cash

In 2017, when Bitcoin hard fork split it into BTC and BCH, on November 14, Buterin posted an apparently positive comment regarding BCH.

Vitalik Buterin’s 2017 tweet about BCH. Source: Twitter

Although this tweet can be considered as Bitcoin Cash-supportive, the following day Buterin posted additional tweet, explaining that there is a difference between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash:

“That said, *right now*, I think trying to claim ‘BCH = bitcoin’ is a bad idea, as it *is* a minority opinion in the ‘greater bitcoin community,’” he argued in the next tweet.

Proving consistency

In 2018, almost a year after the hard fork, Buterin responded to BCH tweet again, providing comments consistent with previous ones.

Twitter user Meni Rosenfeld wrote: “It has been one year since BCH split off from Bitcoin, and it is now clear that it has failed to gain traction as ‘the’ Bitcoin.” He added that “It was given its chance but now it should cease confusing the market with the inappropriate name ‘Bitcoin Cash.’”

Buterin replied:

“I disagree. ‘Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin’ is at this point unrealistic, but the name Bitcoin Cash by itself is totally fine.”

In his most recent comments on a BCH development fund Twitter post, Buterin stated:

“In case you’re wondering what side I’m on in all of this, I’m on the side of taking public goods challenges seriously and being open to adjusting ideological preconceptions while maintaining a commitment to core values of decentralization in order to meet them.”