Bitcoin (BTC) is Bitcoin. Saying it's "altered" is like saying that Hacker News is "altered" because its code has evolved over the years. Saying BSV is the "restored" Bitcoin protocol is like saying retrohackernews.com is the "restored" Hacker News because it runs on an old fork of Hacker News. That doesn't make it Hacker News.

I'm not saying that Bitcoin has become good or bad; I'm saying it's Bitcoin. BSV folks spend a lot of time and bytes trying to convince others that they're the real deal, and that Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto. It doesn't matter. If BSV is superior to Bitcoin, it should prevail through its own merit, not through language gymnastics in online forums.

> If BSV is superior to Bitcoin, it should prevail through its own merit, not through language gymnastics in online forums.

Agree 100%. That's why the focus is on utility, and will keep delivering until it's obvious.

By that logic, the web isn't the web because it deviates from Tim Berners-Lee's 1989 proposal. http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html

BSV is for an old version of the bitcoin protocol. People launch these daily.

There is a pre-2013 patch version of the bitcoin protocol too. People play around with it for kicks, because the exploits are already known. Maybe some exchange trades it.

This is just called an old version, due to consensus.

Ideology is just a distraction.

There are quite a few projects being built using BitcoinSV compared to any of the other "old versions" though, right?

I never compared that specific thing and dont care to.

If I have a file so hot that I cant even store it on Mega or a free decentralized storage file system

Then I know that BitcoinSV is a public dumping ground I can use