As a major crypto company warned that their users will not be able to receive funds to their wallets due to the coin's hard fork in February 2020, people online wonder if the project is sabotaging itself.
Digital asset custody company BitGo said that this comes as a result of the Genesis hard fork that BSV Protocol developers have scheduled for block height 620538, currently estimated to happen on February 4 next year.
The first beta version for the Genesis Hard Fork has already been released, and two public testnets created: Genesis Testnet and Genesis Reset, the latter of which will follow a 48-hour reset cycle for repeated testing of the transition, a blog post on Bitcoin SV site explained. “This hard fork represents a significant milestone in Bitcoin SV’s journey to restore the original Bitcoin protocol,” it said.
However, once completed, the consensus rule change will allegedly render Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH) outputs invalid, and with them all BITGO BSV wallets, as these use P2SH-based multi-signature addresses.
Making P2SH outputs invalid could potentially carry major consequences for BSV, backed by , and its users, if it turns out that more companies and service providers will follow BitGo’s course of action. We’ve asked Bitcoinsv.io about this situation and how will it affect BSV, and we’ll update the text should we get a response.
In case of BitGo, which was founded in 2013 and supports more than 200 coins and tokens, it means that users can still spend the funds they already held in P2SH, but they will not be able to receive any to the BitGo BSV wallet – including the change returned from a BitGo wallet. Therefore, all users will have to choose one of the two available options: either move their BSV to an external wallet, or contact BitGo to convert BSV into .
The second option can be seen as quite ironic given the history the two coins share (BSV is a hard fork of , which in turn is a hard fork of BTC), as well as the animosity between the two communities – a point that hasn’t escaped online commenters.
People online have also wondered why would a project narrow down the options for their users and turn them to the competition, as it seems counter-intuitive and going against adoption. For example, Jameson Lopp, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of crypto security specialist Casa, commented: “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. BSV is essentially delisting itself.”
Satoshi did not have enough vision to see this coming, sad ??
— Daniel ?¦? (@danbb_fp) December 18, 2019
BSV, ranked 9th by market capitalization, is currently (13:22 UTC) trading at c. USD 78. The price has gone down 10% in the past 24 hours, while other coins from the top 10 are down 5%-13% today.
