Controversial document from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where it is said that Bitcoin Cash is really the original blockchain of Satoshi Nakamoto and that Bitcoin is really a fork (WTF).

Bitcoin is the queen cryptocurrency of the market and on which all are based to calculate part of its value, in addition, it is the cryptocurrency that is supporting the most hard fork. Well, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has just published a draft regarding blockchain technology, in which, a quite controversial position is adopted regarding the scaling of BTC. This just 57-page post, which has been published by the Information Security Resource Center, claims that Bitcoin Cash, and not BTC, is the original blockchain technology developed by Satoshi Nakamoto.

'When SegWit was activated, it caused a difficult situation, and all mining nodes and users who did not want to switch started calling the Bitcoin blockchain the original Bitcoin Cash (BCH),' the document states. 'Technically, BTC is a fork and BCH is the original blockchain. When the hard fork happened, people had access to the same amount of coins in BTC and BCH.'

The claim is very bold, but it contains some technical errors . Proponents may argue that 'Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin,' and that the state of the original blockchain diverges from Nakamoto's original vision for this cryptocurrency, but the fact that BCH, not Bitcoin, was created by a fork on August 1st cannot be ignored. The NIST report also incorrectly states that Segregated Witness (SegWit), a scaling solution initially implemented on the Bitcoin network in August, was implemented via a hard fork, which would make SegWit-compatible software clients backward compatible with older software versions. SegWit is actually a soft fork of the network, which is why backward compatibility with legacy Bitcoin software exists.

It's important to note that a blockchain fork without proper prior testing is one of the reasons why SegWit2x, which would have increased the size of BTC blocks to 2MB each, only resulted in SegWit being activated. This was due to insufficient support, and the project was ultimately canceled by the developers themselves. Those who wish to comment on the NIST document can do so until February 23rd.