Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponent, Roger Ver, claims he paid thousands of dollars in Bitcoin (BTC) fees on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n
\"I paid a thousand dollars in fees for a single transaction on the Bitcoin network, more times than I can count,\" Ver said in a video posted by Bitcoin Meme Hub on Twitter.<\/p>\n
Bitcoin's chain split into Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Cash in 2017, dividing a chunk of the community after disagreements over the asset.<\/p>\n
Proponents of big blocks wanted faster transactions at lower cost. Those folks veered off with the BCH side of the fork. Bitcoin Core advocates wanted to keep a lower block size, partly to help BTC remain decentralized.<\/p>\n
The Bitcoin Cash community saw even further divide in 2018, when BCH itself split into Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision (BSV).<\/p>\n
A well-known name in the crypto industry, Roger Ver has argued the point of fees and usability many times, often lobbying that BTC is too slow, expensive, and unable to scale.<\/p>\n
On April 7, Reddit user, Braclayrab,posted that, \"If everyone on BTC wanted to move their coins, it would take 165 days.\"<\/p>\n
\"That's almost six months,\" Ver said in an April 9 video response to the Reddit post. \"Does that not seem crazy to anyone else.\"<\/p>\n
Users saw similar difficulties near the peak of Bitcoin's $20,000 bull run in 2017 and early 2018, when transactions stalled amid soaring fees. Ver has often riffed on the concept of Bitcoin Core being a slow and expensive network, pointing toward BCH as an alternative.<\/p>\n
In contrast, BTC proponents, such as programmer Jimmy Song, often mention the other side of the table, in keeping BTC decentralized through smaller blocks. <\/p>\n
Bitcoin Cash recently completed its halving roughly one month before Bitcoin's scheduled May halving event.<\/p>\n
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