Bitcoin BCH Hash War Will be Decided by Sustained - Not Temporary, Rented - Hash Power

LONDON, November 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --

With the Bitcoin BCH network upgrade on November 15, a hash war has begun with miners voting between Bitcoin SV and Bitcoin ABC - two competing implementations of the BCH protocol. As fully expected, Bitcoin ABC appeared to take a temporary lead on the first day by receiving an artificial boost from temporary, "rented" hash power subsidized by Roger Ver's organization Bitcoin.com, which announced it would use its pool customer hash on BCH for just 24 hours, and from ABC's main supporter Bitmain Technologies, the Chinese manufacturer of crypto mining rigs. However, Bitcoin SV has strong support from CoinGeek, the largest BCH miner, and nChain, the leading blockchain research & development firm. CoinGeek and nChain have the resources to fight long term with their own sustained hash, long after Bitmain cannot afford to bleed money for rented hash. Therefore, the BCH hash war will not be decided in 1 or 2 days, but over many days and possibly weeks by on-going miner votes with sustained Proof of Work. Until a dominant chain emerges, cryptocurrency exchanges, wallet and service providers are advised to remain neutral, and to run a Bitcoin SV node to be prepared for the best interests of users.

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CoinGeek founder Calvin Ayre expressed his determination to fight the BCH hash war as long as it takes:

"CoinGeek and nChain are in this battle for the long haul. We will mine BCH and fight as long as it takes to protect the original Bitcoin from Bitmain, Jihan Wu, and their Bitcoin ABC development group who all want to change BCH into some alt-coin Wormhole token technology. Roger Ver's company Bitcoin.com is subsidizing hash for only 24 hours, taken from his own customers. As for Bitmain, to keep up with us in this hash war, Bitmain will have to spend millions of dollars a day from its investors' money and shareholder assets, while also trying to raise more investor money for its shaky IPO. This will bleed Bitmain's cash and cryptocurrency reserves, because we are prepared to fight for months and months. If I were a shareholder or investor in Bitmain, I'd be asking why Jihan Wu is spending all your money to control BCH when Bitmain's business supports multiple cryptocurrencies."