Bitcoin.com
Roger Ver's company and domain, founded in 2014, which became the most visible Bitcoin Cash promoter after 2017.
Vlad's own view in the Forks! magazine: what he disliked about Bitcoin Cash was “the way Bitcoin.com quietly became a BCH website”. Disclosure: Bitcoin.com News has sponsored episodes of the show.[5][4]
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History
Wikipedia says Roger Ver gained control of the Bitcoin.com domain in April 2014, leased it to Blockchain.info and later to OKCoin, and won a $570,000 judgment against OKCoin's Hong Kong entity in November 2017[1]. The company is headquartered in Saint Kitts and Nevis and launched the Bitcoin.com Wallet in June 2017[1]. In May 2020 Dennis Jarvis became CEO and broadened the vision to “economic freedom” rather than one cryptocurrency[1].
Forks
Bitcoin.com is on the list of New York Agreement signatories of May 2017[2]. On S15 E26 Ver said that high fees became “such a big headache that literally Bitcoin.com stopped focusing on Bitcoin”[3].
Disclosure
Bitcoin.com News is a sponsor of Bitcoin Takeover; S16 E30, for example, opened with it in the sponsor list[4].
References
- secondaryWikipedia, “Bitcoin.com” [archived]
- primaryDigital Currency Group, “Bitcoin Scaling Agreement at Consensus 2017”, Medium, 23 May 2017 (Wayback Machine copy)
- episodeS15 E26: Roger Ver on Bitcoin.com stopping its focus on Bitcoin▶ listen at 1:05:16timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeS16 E30: Peter Rizun on Scaling Bitcoin with Hardware — introduction▶ listen at 0:49timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- btkBitcoin Cash: The Big Block Breakaway (BTCTKVR: Forks!) [archived]