Who created Bitcoin Cash?

Amaury Séchet explains the history of his decision to start the BCH chain-split on the BCH Podcast.

Corbin Fraser (CEO of Bitcoin.com) explains the history of the BCH chain-split & Roger Ver's (un)involvement on The Bitcoin Takeover Podcast.

BCH was created by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009 (2008 including the publishing of the whitepaper). This is self-evident in the blockchain containing transactions from 2009 & many BCHers who contributed to BTC before the split maintaining that they never changed the project they were working on (see discussion of Is Bitcoin Cash (BCH) the real Bitcoin?)

The chain-split (be careful not to conflate with a hard-fork, although it was also that) between BTC & BCH occurred on 1st August 2017 & was conducted by a group of big blockers lead by Amaury Sechet. Frequent cited contributors include Jonald Fyookball, freetrader, Jonathan Toomim & others. Another account of the split is here, reproduced here.

Roger Ver propaganda

There is a common strain of propaganda, among many others, that BCH was created by Roger Ver as some kind of scam - rather than an organic effort by a section of the community to prevent the ongoing hijacking during The Blocksize War.

Crucially, the chain split from BTC (1st August 2017) did not involve Roger Ver, who only became involved after the collapse of the SegWit2x efforts (in November 2017). He was not involved in the chain-split initially, and his involvement later was simply in support of it as a businessman & free-market advocate that believed in the technical roadmap for big block scaling. There are many accounts of this, including his own in Hijacking Bitcoin.

A section from Hijacking Bitcoin where Roger explains that he was not involved in the split in his own words.

Accusations that BCH is "Roger's project" or that he created it are sometimes simply misguided but are very frequently deliberate propaganda. Any source that is promulgating this false information should be treated with very high skepticism - on this issue & any other related information about Bitcoin & BCH.

Was BCH created in 2009, or 2017?

Some people have the erroneous (or perhaps, propagandised) belief that BCH was created in 2017, rather than 2009. They will challenge BCH adopters to show where the ticker "BCH" was tradeable on an exchange prior to that date as "proof" that it did not exist before then. An exchange ticker does not define the creation of a cryptocurrency asset, otherwise it must be true that Bitcoin was NOT created with the genesis block by Satoshi in January 2009 but rather when the first Bitcoin exchange (and the related "BTC" ticker symbol) was begun many months later, long after many transactions had been made on the network. This is clearly a ridiculous point of view, but many people have this misunderstanding of how Bitcoin chain splits work or are misleadingly trying to score political points in debate about the real Bitcoin.

A woman who changes her surname after getting married is not a new person - she existed both before and after her name change - but due to external factors is identified and labelled differently once married. In the same way, BCH did not come into existence in 2017 - it already existed but was simply known as Bitcoin (or BTC).

Some people confuse the way history played out (assigning the BTC ticker to the small block Bitcoin) with some kind of divine decree that BTC is "the real Bitcoin". Those same people (who are often absolutely adamant that small block Bitcoin is the best or only path for Bitcoin - driven by tribalism and toxic maximalism) can't conceive that they would believe the exact opposite if history had gone marginally differently and what is today BCH was assigned the ticker BTC by cryptocurrency exchanges while today's BTC was called something else. This is a failure to think abstractly about alternative histories. This same flawed logic can be demonstrated by a simple thought experiment - if for some reason all of the cryptocurrency exchanges overnight decided to assign the "BTC" ticker symbol to Ethereum, would that make Ethereum the real Bitcoin? While exchange listing is one aspect to cryptocurrencies, it's certainly not the sole defining one.