There's Another Bitcoin Core in Town

No, we're not using the derogatory other name for the cryptocurrency most often referred to as bitcoin - the one that legendary crypto investor and bitcoin cash booster Roger Ver likes to berate.

Another small group of ever-persistent developers forked bitcoin clashic - fixing its issues but leaving the updates from bitcoin cash's most recent hard fork - a couple weeks ago to create bitcoin core.

See, Ver has made it his mission to paint bitcoin cash as the "Real" bitcoin - a protocol that better represents what Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin, would have wanted.

This war started when those opposed to bitcoin cash started calling it "Bcash." While those using bcash explained that the nickname was in an effort to eliminate confusion between bitcoin cash and bitcoin, the supporters of bitcoin cash didn't like the new moniker.

According to bitcoin cash supporters like Eli Afram, the Bitcoin Cash Australia founder, giving bitcoin cash that nickname was more than just a helpful signal.

"When bitcoin cash first forked, many in the Bitcoin Core camp were so threatened they couldn't even call it by its name or even its ticker for short and referred to it as 'bcash,'" Afram argued to CoinDesk.

As mentioned, bitcoin cash supporters see the cryptocurrency as the "Real" bitcoin since it upped the block size, allowing for more transactions to happen on the network with lower fees - what they see as Satoshi's real interest in creating a cryptocurrency in the first place.

Still, bitcoin cash proponents have begun calling bitcoin "Bitcoin core."

Those in favor of bitcoin cash aren't seeing the new bitcoin core cryptocurrency as a humorous meme.

"Bitcoin core was created to make people think bitcoin core is bitcoin," said Ryan X. Charles, the co-founder and CEO of Yours, which notably moved from bitcoin to bitcoin cash after the hard fork.