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Leading Figures in Cryptocurrency on Bitcoin (BTC) vs Bitcoin (BCH)
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Bitcoin Core's views are incorrect and heading in fundamentally the wrong direction.
**Kyle Samani (Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital)**
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/why-bi
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I see Blockstream as an incompetent company that took over control of bitcoin by unethical means to turn it into a part of their own nonsensical project.
**Jorge Stolfi (UNICAMP Profes
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It's a complete hijack of the protocol
**Dan Larimer (Steem, Bitshares, EOS Founder)**
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/b0p7wr/daniel_larimers_thoughts_on_segwit_lightning/
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In order to be a very successful cryptocurrency, you need to provide fast and cheap transactions. There is no way around that. It's nice to be a store of value, but if you really want
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to succeed in this game, you need to be electronic cash.
**Kim Dotcom (Megaupload Founder, Internet Entrepreneur)**
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Bitcoin is BCH
**Roger Ver (Early Bitcoin Investor and Promoter)**
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The two things that a currency needs to be able to do is first be a medium of exchange and second be a storehold of wealth.
**Ray Dalio (Founder of Bridgewater Associates)**
https://ww
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w.youtube.com/watch?v=UyVIuNI797w
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Bitcoin Cash is what I started working on in 2010
**Gavin Andresen (Bitcoin lead dev 2010-2014)**
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I consider Bitcoin's failure to raise block sizes to keep fees reasonable to be a large (non-consensual) change to the "original plan", morally tantamount to a hard fork.
**Vitalik But
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“We don’t think that that that whole space will be relevant and grow unless there are real use cases and we do think that a use case is going to be the digital transfer of value th
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rough payments.”
**Jeffrey Sprecher (Intercontinental Exchange CEO)**
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-needs-real-use-cases-to-become-digital-gold-says-ice-chief
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The Core developers spent the last four years wasting time on this ridiculous scaling problem and ensuring adoption hasn't gone far enough and it hasn't come into consumer use like it
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should have and would have if it had been able to scale.

So now we're seeing what happens when Bitcoin was not properly scaled and its not behaving the way Satoshi intended it to
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be. I'd like to do a conjectural history on what Bitcoin would look like today if the OG hodlers hadn't claimed it would be some sort of asset that you would never use, you would just
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hold it forever and see what the price be, I think we would be in a different world. Peter and I disagree on this, but I think this is the reason Bitcoin has pulled
back so hard, it
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just wasn't allowed to perform in the way it should have done.

**Jeffrey A. Tucker (Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research)**
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In order to be a very successful cryptocurrency, you need to provide fast and cheap transactions. There is no way around that. It's nice to be a store of value, but if you really want
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to succeed in this game, you need to be electronic cash.
**Kim Dotcom (Megaupload Founder, Internet Entrepreneur) **
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>Lots of people are trying to change my mind. My mind will be changed not by technical discussions about fiat currency, sharpe ratios, valuation projections, protocol comparisons , etc
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. It will be changed by actual usage by consumers, who choose BTC over the many other options
**Mark Cuban (American Businessman and Investor)**
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The two things that a currency needs to be able to do is first be a medium of exchange and second be a storehold of wealth.
Ray Dalio (Founder of Bridgewater Associates)
https://www.yo
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utube.com/watch?v=UyVIuNI797w