Bitcoin Cash Devcon Gets Commended By Cornell Professor Emin Gün Sirer

Emin Gun Sirer, Associate Professor Computer Science, Computing and Information Science/College of Engineering Emin Gun Sirer, Associate Professor Computer Science, Computing and Information Science/College of Engineering

Emin Gün Sirer is a renowned computer scientist who is Turkish-American. He is currently a professor at Cornell University who has made a lot of contributions to the development of the cryptocurrency industry, computer networking and operating systems. Speaking about the debate regarding cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange or a store of value at the San Francisco Blockchain Week, he declared his support for Bitcoin Cash.

Following the just concluded BCH Devcon, Sirer commended the project. This was during an interview with CoinSpice. Apart from commending the team spirit of the Bitcoin Cash development team, he also expressed support for the idea of using BCH as a medium of exchange rather than as a store of value. In his words:

 

“The blockchain technology is meant to be explored not to be sat on, caged or stored in a vault in the name of storing value. Cryptocurrencies are valuable because they are meant to serve a purpose. This purpose is clearly fulfilled by BCH”. For a while now, there has been a debate regarding how cryptocurrencies should be used: as a store of value or as a medium of exchange. This debate was what Sirer had in mind when he made the above comment. There are a lot of contradicting views on the issue. One camp claims that cryptocurrencies are best used as a store of value while another camp says cryptocurrencies are best used as a medium of exchange. Sirer has stated that he is in the camp that supports the use of cryptocurrencies as a medium of exchange.
What Others Think

Just last week, Jimmy Song, a Bitcoin developer suggested that cryptocurrencies should be purchased using credit cards and then cashed out in fiat to pay bills monthly. Two weeks ago, Song said that the best thing investors can do for the cryptocurrency community is to hold it and not spend it.

Other members of the Bitcoin Cash community claim the value of cryptocurrency is gotten when it is used as a medium of exchange arguing that using cryptocurrencies as a medium of exchange is especially important in developing countries that are facing economic crisis.

Communications Ambassador for Bitcoin.com, Sterlin Lujan, said that Satoshi had a vision for Bitcoin and that vision was for it to serve as a decentralized form of cash. Lujan, earlier this year, suggested that many of the new developers do not share Satoshi’s vision for Bitcoin and the industry as a whole. This is because these new developers are more concerned about price increase than actual developmental growth. In his words:

“The new developers don’t share Satoshi’s vision. They never thought that Bitcoin will be scalable enough to be used as cash. They want Bitcoin to remain as a store of value or as a commodity. This is why many of them said that slow confirmation times and high speed are a good thing for Bitcoin”

While different teams have their different opinions about how best cryptocurrencies should be used, the market trend is what will finally determine which is better.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Price Analysis

The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) price is ranging against the USD. Currently, it is at the lower part of the range at $449.22. This shows that it so up by 1.63% against the USD. Against Bitcoin, BCH is up by 1.36%. The market capitalization is $7,822,775,676 while the trading volume over a 24 hour period is $270,207,611.
(By Uma Johnson - smartereum.com)