I was around at the time; and I do recall that it was specifically the “denounce-segwit2x” page linked above that gave bitcoin.org sufficient ongoing credibility for me to continue recommending it to newbies.
Should you doubt how hard I myself was against S2X particularly, back in 2017:
It doesn't matter which of you were the hardest against Segwit2X,
one person cannot change something by himself. It takes several people to oppose change.
Would I be right in assuming it's not the existence of forkcoins you oppose, but rather just the false advertising part to sucker in new users?
Replying to nullius:
Speaking from a new user's perspective here. I found bitcoin from a LinusTechTips video where he was attempting to mine bitcoin and talking about getting crazy rich from it. This is how the vast majority of newbies are exposed to bitcoin these days. You either tell them that there's this thing called "bitcoin" which you can mine and get free coins out of it (even though that isn't technically true), or
show them that people are getting crazy rich off of it, either way the person in question dips their toes into bitcoin. But:
- Have you ever seen a popular youtube channel talking about BCH or BSV? Crypto channels do not count because their audience is people who already know about bitcoin.
- Have you seen a popular news outlet talking about BCH or BSV? Same disqualification above applies here too.
That's it. Those are the only avenues that reach large swaths of diverse users. Even the NYT article I linked did not once mention the words Bitcoin Cash or Bitcoin SV, despite containing much other terminology verbage. And a social media post will only be read by a few hundred or thousand people, which is the consequence of having a Follow button, most of whom are either not newbies or have other, busy things to do with their time. Meaning BCH and BSV shills' sphere of influence on social media is limited to the people who
want to believe it i.e. not the average joes, and they are a large majority, who are trying to use bitcoin to become rich.
I mean, if someone clicked the Follow button on one of those people, then they are clearly not a bitcoin newbie.
Whether you like Cobra or not is irrelevant. This discussion is happening on the back page of an internet forum far away from the bitcoin.org landing page. It is worth noting though that discussions like these are necessary to prevent mainstream channels from hosting these arguments in their own medium, exposing this to clueless people on Youtube and news. That is something I would worry about more than whether you trust Cobra with the bitcoin domain, and judging by the length of this thread you guys are doing a good job at keeping this discussion out of mainstream news, as I haven't seen a single article about this as of today.
Wake me up when LinusTechTips, which is sometimes listed
here, or some other youtuber starts talking about BCH/BSV.
In fine, I'm sharply more worried about (the highly unlikely scenario given the point above) a large trending youtube channel with millions of subscribers merely talking about forkcoins than posts that morons like
this one make here.