Why I Choose Bitcoin Cash

I choose a Peer to Peer Electronic Cash overeverything. Right now the best form of this comes in theform of Bitcoin Cash, which holds the ticker BCH on nearly all exchanges. My name is Moaz Ahmed, I have lived inthe United States my entire life. I am a freelance director / cinematographer/ steadicam operator. I first heard about Bitcoin in 2013 duringits bubble, where it peaked at $1200. I think my first buy was around $150 but Ionly bought a little bit, as much as I could afford being a broke college student. I made some money and bought things with it,like this weird camera rig. Of course part of the adoption of bitcoinis caused by people speculating trying to make money off of it. But I realized I had real utility, I coulduse it as money. An investment that is liquid as hell. Awesome. I asked an innocent question in late 2015on the uncensored bitcoin subreddit, /r/btc: “ELI5: Why do so many people insist on asmall block size?”. I received great answers, such as Blockstream’srole in taking over the development, how Peter Todd is still trying to this day to kill 0-confirmationtransactions, and how the Core devs were restricting the base layer to push a second one that theyclaimed would be even better than the actual blockchain.

All of these points still hold true to thisday. I even recognize many of the names in thethread from back then with people I still talk to today. I even had some post calling out theymos,the king of censorship, around this time. How things have… not changed. The more I dig up the more obvious the manipulationof public opinion. Again, this was in 2015 this was all beingcalled out, four years ago. That’s almost half of bitcoin’s lifetime. Crypto is really just politics, but on a timescale which seems thousands of times faster. I was always a big blocker. 1MB is tiny. It seemed a majority of the community backin 2015 was for bigger blocks too. How a small group of Core developers tookover and sabotaged the bitcoin experiment with never-ending small blocks will be quitethe interesting case study in history class. I’m still trying to fully wrap my head aroundhow Gavin, the person Satoshi entrusted with the keys to the bitcoin code, was pushed outand ostracized for wanting the logical solution, bigger blocks. It’s a story that takes a long time to tell,and involves a Fake Satoshi. I’m currently working on a feature lengthdocumentary about the shitshow that is bitcoin’s history. The REAL down and dirty bitcoin politics,not some loud mouth troll showing up on TV spouting nonsense. So the fork happened in August 2017 and thebig block version, Bitcoin Cash, did not win over the hearts and minds of investors. It’s a story that takes a long time to tell,and involves a Fake Satoshi. I’m currently working on a feature lengthdocumentary about the shitshow that is bitcoin’s history. The REAL down and dirty bitcoin politics,not some loud mouth troll showing up on TV spouting nonsense. So the fork happened in August 2017 and thebig block version, Bitcoin Cash, did not win over the hearts and minds of investors. Immediate ridicule from the Core folks ensued,as was par for the course. “Bcash is trash” was their mantra, inan attempt to rip the word bitcoin out of its name.<f3>.... Now remember, theymos really ramped up hiscensorship on /r/bitcoin in 2015. Reddit was THE spot to talk bitcoin, and theymos’actions make him, in my opinion, the single biggest influence in this entire Scaling War. Go to any post from back then about theymosincreasing “moderation” and look at how many people vehemently opposed it. One of bitcoin’s main properties is censorship-resistance,but apparently once you leave the protocol layer you also abandon all of its ethos. When your tactics resort to silencing theopposition you know your arguments are not on solid ground. If they were, they would let all the dissentcome their way and evaporate before them in the face of truth. But no. The block and ban buttons are used as a formof religious piety. This itself was a huge red flag that somethingwas wrong with Bitcoin. As a recent concrete example of manipulation, untila week old news story broke about the Twitter CEO, Jack, buying a hardware wallet suddenlyunseated it. This Jack story was in a hostile sub and itgained the top spot in an hour. Mods deleted the post shortly after. The account had a history of vote botting. Proof Of Social Media. Par for the course for those against peerto peer cash. And this… this is where I just get angry. BTC does not work as a reliable form of cash,yet it’s still pushed on unsuspecting noobs, many who now go to the bcash sunday service. These social media influencers have 10s ofthousands of followers that they preach the good word to… surely this many people wouldn’tlisten to someone who was just fundamentally wrong! This market is immature and frankly, justdumb. I really woke up to all of this when all ofa sudden I was paying $1 for a transaction fee in early 2017. This is NOT what I signed up for. My money should not disappear every time Iwant to move it. When Bitcoin Cash forked, I was all in, literallywith my still tiny stash and figuratively from an ideological perspective. Does this give me investment bias? Probably, but again, I’m not talking bigmoney here. Irregardless, I do my research and it’sthe only coin I can confidently put my money in. I know what it is trying to do is the reasonbitcoin was created in the first place, which is… what again? Oh yeah, to give everyone in the world anopportunity to be their own bank. To give people the ability to transact withanyone in the world without the need of a third party, even if they make less than $2a day. That is bitcoin. I kept diving deeper into the rabbit hole. Surely everyone couldn’t be this deluded…but they were. Advocating for the sensible thing of raisingthe blocksize and how BCH is a legitimate version of Bitcoin on social media has beentiring. I don’t know how some of these trolls areso active and just… hostile. I grew up with the internet, part of the firstgeneration that had social media for their entire middle and high school experience. But these bitcoin guys man, the most toxicI have ever seen. You must have thick skin if you even thinkabout having independent thought in crypto. It’s sad. I have no doubt there are people whose full-timejob it is to sow up disagreement and strife within those who want to see Bitcoin be theworld money. There’s even evidence of In November of 2017 I made a commercial forBCH with the help of the Bitcoin Cash Association. It was a high quality commercial in a barbershop which showed bitcoin being used as cash. Response from the community was great, andI found myself in Tokyo a couple months later shooting the Satoshi’s Vision Conference,where many of the Bitcoin Cash community attended. I interviewed most of the top leaders in BCHduring that time period for my documentary… including Craig Wright. This man seemed to come out of nowhere andwas a huge advocate of Bitcoin Cash. He had charisma, no doubt, even when his Satoshiclaims were iffy. I think the BCH community sided with him becausehe was so anti-core. An enemy of an enemy is your friend. And since this “friend” was very aggressiveand outspoken towards the cause, many were willing to let his shadiness slide. But very quickly after this conference ACTUALbitcoin devs, who actually work on and understand the bitcoin protocol, started calling himout on his lies. It was hard to admit you’d been duped, buthere we all are. Then, of course he forked off into his owncoin months later, and his fraud lives on. Then comes the altcoin arguments. “If you don’t like BTC so much just usenano? DASH is the real peer to peer cash! Lol noob do you even cardano?” Well, since BCH has the same transaction historydating back to the genesis block in 2009, one could argue the distribution of the coinis more decentralized than any of the altcoins, since it has been around the longest. I’m a strong believer in Proof of Work aswell. Although BCH has much less hashpower thanBTC, it has been shown how a significant portion of hash would move to BCH in defense of amalicious actor, like we saw in the hashwar. The miners like Bitcoin Cash, but they mostlyfollow profits, and this means mining BTC and BCH at the same rate as the price ratiobetween them. Now that BCH is free from its former crippledblocksize, most things the altcoins can do, BCH could implement itself. Even things like the lightning network wouldwork muchhhh better on Bitcoin Cash due to the small fees to open and close channels. Bitcoin was meant to be the one crypto thatruled them all, absorbing the best altcoin features. Vitalik Buterin figured out this was not thecase any more, and he ran off to make Ethereum in 2015 after much fighting with the Coredevs. So here I find myself, in March 2019, stilla supporter of Bitcoin Cash. You can feel the creative and grassroots energyof people who just want to build. I hear the Bitcoin OGs say its the same spiritthat bitcoin had it in its early days. People that CARE about making bitcoin greatagain. And of course, the small blocks made buildingapps difficult for devs, as the high fees and slow confirmations could disable someapplications who relied on cheap and fast transactions. Full blocks cause unreliability. And if you’re a dev and want to build anapp, why in the hell would you use a base protocol that can suddenly cost $50 for asingle use. If BCH stops being the best form of P2P cash,make no mistake, I would drop support. I’m not a blind follower and am always lookingto challenge my beliefs. Tokens, Decentralized handles, Badger Wallet,tips.cash, CashShuffle, Satoshidice… the list goes on. So many of these projects are just now hittingthe Bitcoin Cash market, and wallets are trying to catch up and implement these features asfast as they can. It’s still early in Bitcoin Cash’s developmentlife, and the energy within the community is the same one I felt when I first got intoit, vibrant, full of hope for a better future, and now with an added tenacity to make surethat no bad actors can once again destroy the vision of Peer to Peer cash for the entireworld.