Sure, there are plenty of bitcoin forks out there, but the difference is that none of them pretend to be BTC like BCash does. Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Private, even Bitcoin SV to an extent, present and market themselves as different coins. Even although Bitcoin SV falsely claims to be the original implementation of bitcoin, it doesn't pretend to be BTC. BCash is far more insidious in this manner. The entire continued existence of this scam coin hinges on fooling newbies in to thinking they are buying real bitcoin when in fact they are buying a useless altcoin.

He has tried similar stunts in the past. He filed forms with the US Copyright Office to try to claim ownership of the original whitepaper and the original bitcoin code, while trying to hide the fact that filing these forms is as simple as filling them in and paying $45. The backlash from it even prompted the US Copyright Office to release a statement basically calling him out for being the fraud that he is, saying that "The Copyright Office does not investigate the truth of any statement made."