One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Australia and New Zealand, Independent Reserve, announced the delisting of the Bitcoin SV fork; trading in altcoin will be discontinued on March 28, after which customers will be able to withdraw their coins within six months. The company explained this decision by the behavior of the project developers.
“Bitcoin is ‘The People’s Money’. At its very core are the principles of openness and freedom and these were also the founding values of Independent Reserve. The behaviour shown by the team behind BSV has been completely counter to these ideals, repeatedly spreading misinformation and making baseless threats against the community. Recent talk of legal action against developers working to improve the Bitcoin ecosystem proved to be the final straw. These are the actions of a bully and they must stop.”, said Adrian Przhelozny, CEO of the crypto exchange, in a comment to CoinDesk.
The exchange decided to delist after a supporter and co-creator of the Bitcoin SV project, Craig Wright, sent out notices to remove the Bitcoin white paper due to copyright infringement. Bitcoin's core development team, Bitcoin Core, complied with fears of costly litigation.
Wright refers to himself as Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, however he does not provide any conclusive evidence. According to Wright, BSV is real bitcoin.
The white paper of the first cryptocurrency was released under the MIT license. This means that everyone is free to use or redistribute it.
After Wright sent out a request to remove the document, a number of companies posted it on their websites. White paper was also published by the state websites of Colombia and Estonia.
