I created this crypto art in 2017 during the Bitcoin war that resulted in the Bitcoin hard fork and resulting Bitcoin Cash protocol. It was, I think my very first crypto art. I never minted it until now.
It was a very strange and scary time, and no one knew exactly what would happen in the future. I had already gone full time in crypto starting in 2016 so I was very anxious about this Bitcoin situation. It was very difficult to separate facts from propaganda. To even understand why this war was happening I had to spend a lot of time trying to understand the technical aspects of Bitcoin, which is not easy.
People were being banned from bitcointalk forums that centered around the block size of Bitcoin. The two main factions were Bitcoin Unlimited (Roger Ver on left) vs. SegWit (Greg Maxwell on right). To understand this war, I’d have to explain the technical details, so just Google ‘SegWit Bitcoin’ if you want to go down that rabbit hole.
During this time a Bitcoin troll army, the Dragon’s Den was uncovered, which I depicted in my painting: https://cointelegraph.com/news/secret-bitcoin-troll-army-pushes-for-segwit-adoption-emin-gun-sirer
Bitcoin cash is a cryptocurrency created in August 2017, from a fork of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash increased the size of blocks, allowing more transactions to be processed and improving scalability.
Here’s a timestamp of this art which was first published on April 18, 2017 on Medium:
https://medium.com/dash-for-newbies/bitcoin-vs-dash-a-comic-5b6a01c2912f
