November 8, 2018 10:12 PM
Bitcoin Jesus has his own come-to-Jesus moment.
"It's never easy to admit that you've been fooled. Maybe I've been fooled." That's how Roger Ver, one of Bitcoin's first champions, began a video[1] posted today to the YouTube channel of his company, Bitcoin.com.
In the video, titled "Roger Ver's Thoughts on 15th November Bitcoin Cash Upgrade," the original crypto millionaire presents an email he says he received from Craig Wright on November 3 after Bitcoin.com announced it would be supporting Bitcoin ABC's upgrade plan over Wright and nChain's.
The emails states, in part: "Side with ABC, you hate bitcoin, you are my enemy. You have fucking no idea what that means. You will."
Wright signs off, not with "sincerely," but with "fuck you." Charming.
For context, Bitcoin Cash has been steadily moving toward war over the past several months. The Bitcoin Cash network upgrades every six months. In preparation, Bitcoin ABC, the dominant full node implementation for Bitcoin Cash, released changes to the consensus protocols in August. Craig Wright, the nChain chief scientist who once claimed to be Satoshi, then announced the launch of a competing full node, called Bitcoin SV (Satoshi's Vision). Oh, and the two implementations wouldn't be compatible with one another. He gave an ultimatum: Join us or die. Just kidding, it was more like the email he sent to Ver. Still, harsh.
Clearly, not everyone has joined Bitcoin SV, which as of press constitute less than 10 percent of the functioning nodes. Bitcoin Unlimited, another full node implementation, ignoring the ultimatum, tried to compromise. Many others sided with ABC. Their reasons for doing so are many, and can get pretty technical[2], but Ver sums up perhaps the most important reason: Wright himself.
Says Ver in the video,
