Many indignant users have gone so far as to suggest these practices amount to “fraud”. The ongoing controversy is forcing a rift between Bitcoin.com's creator and major BCH-proponent Roger Ver and crypto industry heavyweights, such as Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift:
Earlier this year, a US government institute itself misstepped into the muddy waters, publishing an official research paper that mistakenly claimed that Bitcoin Cash was the “original” Bitcoin, while Bitcoin was its “fork”.
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