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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by paulmd on Saturday December 16, 2017 @07:00AM (#15939151)
> Why do some people call Bitcoin Cash "Bcash?"

It's an abbreviation. Bitcoin Cash = Bcash/BCH. This acronym is not confusable with Bitcoin or the BTC acronym at all.

Why is this considered remotely offensive? People are incredibly reactive to this and I don't understand why. It's a pretty straightforward mechanism of acronyms that has been going on for hundreds of years.

Why is this actually considered a serious point of discussion, at all?

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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by ericb on Saturday December 16, 2017 @10:11AM (#15939850)
Great to hear your thoughts on this, pmd. You don't mind if I call you that? Oh, you do? Well I'm going to anyway.
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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by paulmd on Saturday December 16, 2017 @10:45AM (#15940002)
I don't at all. Is using an abbreviation supposed to be insulting somehow?

(and the thing is, it's not even the bcash people who are bothered by the term - it's the BTC people! it's like you got insulted when someone recognized me enough to call me PMD... which is what I suspect it comes down to.)

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