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by brndnmtthws 3112 days ago
The unwashed masses can't understand the difference between different coins, so you might as well call everything Bitcoin.
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Most of these crypto currency exchange are derived from bitcoin's codebase (or at least from bitcoin's white paper) so from that perspective I don't consider calling these other crypto's as "bitcoin" to be incorrect, just not specific. I could imagine that maybe could use the distinction of capital Bitcoin to refer to the specific blockchain while lowercase bitcoin to refer to any Bitcoin forks.