Bitcoin.com Accused of Strong-Arm Tactics Over Bitcoin Cash Exchange Listings

Roger Ver's campaign to promote Bitcoin Cash adoption has sparked debate in the cryptocurrency community after the release of an email exchange between crypto trading platform Bity and Bitcoin.com.

Details published by Bity via Reddit on July 25, 2018, reveal a new tactic from the Bitcoin.com team to promote the adoption and usage of BCH, offering crypto exchanges that don't list the Bitcoin fork as a choice - to list BCH, or face being delisted from the Bitcoin.com "Buy Bitcoin" database.

Here's a post from our team explaining why: https://t.

"We are making a change on our exchange listing requirements that all listed exchanges must offer Bitcoin Cash in order to remain listed on our website. For exchanges that we currently list who do not meet this requirement, they will be removed from the exchange listings page and won't be offered as an option moving forward unless this requirement is met."

"In Switzerland there is currently no economy that we are aware of which uses BCH. There are no cases of businesses being built around the direct use of BCH, unlike with Ethereum or Bitcoin We have not seen any real use cases in Switzerland or with our user base of BCH that shows potential to be integrated in the future financial system."

Bitcoin.com appears to back up the threat of delisting with the statement that the platform is one of the " top most viewed websites in the cryptocurrency space with millions of views per month.

" Bitcoin.com is not the only crypto site that has delisting platforms that don't conform to their perspective - Bitcoin.com was removed from the CoinMarketCap Bitcoin Page in early May 2018.

Data from the Internet Archive shows Bitcoin.com listed as "Website 2" on the CoinMarketCap Bitcoin page, whereas the current page only lists Bitcoin.org as the official Bitcoin website.

"We would also like to share that we are crypto agnostic and we understand that things can change in the future. If we see a change in market behaviour towards BCH then we would reconsider offering it on our platform".

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