One of Bitcoin Cash’s (BCH) creators and main developers has reportedly been removed from the cryptocurrency’s Slack group.
Shortly after the incident, Twitter user @WhalePanda, a well-known crypto personality and blogger, was quick to inform his followers that Bitcoin Cash developer @deadalinx had been banned from the crypto’s slack community.
Reddit user u/MemoryDealers, better known as Bitcoin Cash advocate Roger Ver, also shared a conversation from the BCH Slack channel showing that a number of users had been looking for Amaury, or @deadlinx, and had no idea what happened to him.
“Unrestricted Speech” Not Allowed In BCH Community
Commenting on the ban, slack user wec19k said:
This [Bitcoin Cash] slack never had the intention of having unrestricted speech. That’s why it was forked from BTCSlack.
Many redditors then began asking why Amaury was banned and who it was that banned him.
One Redditor responded by saying it was maybe due to him being “very loud about Pre-Consensus”, however, he said it was not really a good reason to ban him. Meanwhile, some users said they were disappointed because people should not be banned for having “opposing views.”
Reddit user SeppDepp2 then claimed that Amaury had not just been voicing opposing views, but he had also been “attacking.” However, SeppDepp2 did not seem to have any direct quote or evidence to prove that the Bitcoin Cash developer had actually been abusive.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Development Very Slow
Amaury, who led the effort behind the development of Bitcoin ABC, one of the first implementations of a Bitcoin fork, has been banned from the BCH slack at a time when other concerning reports regarding Bitcoin Cash’s development have also surfaced.
Based on statistics from Github repositories, the ongoing development efforts for the Bitcoin (BTC) network have been quite steady, however, it appears that since April, there has very little development work going on for the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) platform. In fact, BTC was also reported to be performing at 2-megabyte blocks faster than BCH.
Additionally, security experts have pointed out significant (potential) vulnerabilities in the Bitcoin Cash network.
Notably, not only does it seem that development work behind BCH is questionable or may have stalled, Bitcoin.org was recently “forked” to launch a more neutral, “community-maintained” Bitcoin (BTC) website.
Many members of the crypto world felt that the maintainers of Bitcoin.org had been taking “unilateral actions” or acting “without the consent” of the crypto community over the past few years, which is why btcinformation.org was launched.
Given the controversial behavior and actions of the BCH community, the recent ban of a Bitcoin Cash developer from one of the cryptocurrency’s communication channels does not seem too surprising after all.
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