2018-8-24 17:30 |
According to Bloomberg, Roger Ver, the Bitcoin Cash advocate, also known as “Bitcoin Jesus,” is finding it difficult to convert Bitcoin believers to Bitcoin Cash supporters. Although Ver believes that Bitcoin Cash will become the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, it’s not so widely used in commerce today. Bitcoin Cash’s value has declined quite quickly after its all-time high in December 2017, dropping approximately 85 percent to a market capitalization of $9.4 billion.
Bitcoin Cash Is Not Commonly Used in CommerceWhile Bitcoin Cash is known for its faster transaction speed and lower fees, in a review of the 17 largest cryptocurrency merchant processing services, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis noted that Bitcoin Cash payments have fallen significantly. The payments have declined from $10.5 million in March to only $3.7 million in May.
However, it’s not only Bitcoin Cash payments that have declined to a large degree. In September 2017, Bitcoin payments totaled $412 million. In May 2018, however, it totaled only $60 million.
Bloomberg noted that the decline strongly mirrors the bearish cryptocurrency market in 2018. Bitcoin’s value has fallen approximately 55 percent, while Bitcoin Cash has fallen 75 percent. Although Bitcoin Cash is the fourth most popular cryptocurrency, according to CoinMarketCap, its market capitalization is considerably small given it is less than 10 percent of Bitcoin’s market cap. Senior economist at Chainalysis Kim Grauer said in a phone interview with Bloomberg:
“There are fewer users of Bitcoin Cash, fewer holders.”
Bitcoin Cash’s adoption in commerce declined because of its fairly concentrated ownership. According to Chainalysis’s findings, approximately 56 percent of Bitcoin Cash tokens are in the hands of 67 wallets that are not on exchanges. Among those, two wallets contain between 10,000 and 100,000 Bitcoin Cash tokens.
Roger Ver Remains Positive That Bitcoin Cash Will Win in the EndBitcoin Cash emerged on Aug 1, 2017, and was originally a hard fork from the original Bitcoin. It emerged as a result of a disagreement in the Bitcoin community. According to the Bitcoin Cash website, the Bitcoin Cash community considers Bitcoin Cash “to be the legitimate continuation of the Bitcoin project as peer-to-peer digital cash.”
During the Bitcoin Cash hard fork, Ver changed his allegiance from Bitcoin to Bitcoin Cash and used his website Bitcoin.com to promote Bitcoin Cash. The Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash discussion is one of the most heated debates in the cryptocurrency community with advocates on either side quarreling over social media and forums to argue about the benefits of each cryptocurrency. Even a prominent member of the cryptocurrency community like Samson Mow, CSO of Blockstream, has gone to debate and argue with Roger Ver.
Despite the decline and concentrated ownership, Ver remains confident that Bitcoin Cash will win out in the end. He commented in a tweet on August 13:
The long term price of a crypto currency is a function of its usefulness as a currency. pic.twitter.com/0LjX3fBrQb
— Roger Ver (@rogerkver) August 13, 2018
He then tweeted almost a week later, Aug 19:
Those who buy BTC while thinking that it is Bitcoin are making a mistake. The real Bitcoin is BCH, Bitcoin Cash. https://t.co/NFZzUr6MPk
— Roger Ver (@rogerkver) August 19, 2018
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