What's with the cockroaches?
BitInstitutions inadvertently kickstarts the cockroach meme, a tweet he later deleted after being swarmed by mockery from Bitcoin Cashers. Common cockroach W. Source
Observers on social media may notice BCH users have a recurring joke about cockroaches. The idea is that Bitcoin Cash supporters are like cockroaches:
- Relentlessly unstoppable (cannot be hijacked)
- Uncaring about an unfavourable public opinion
- Numerous & willing to fight as a decentralised swarm
The early Bitcoin community often used an animal mascot of the honeybadger, a symbol for persistence & resilience in the face of chaos & larger adversaries. This can be seen in the 2013 honeybadger sign that appears in The BCH Podcast intro.
The shift from honeybadgers to cockroaches is a BCH cultural evolution similar to the rebrand from orange to green. The concept of resilience has been even further amplified (would you bet on honeybadgers or cockroaches to survive longest as a species?), while finding a way to distinguish itself from the BTC community as the two projects continue to diverge.
This is the BCH community humorously leaning into relentless and unjustified attempts to villify and slander it. The BCH community is not intimidated by bullying or attempts to denigrate them, and will instead laugh at such ineffective social pressure tactics built on lies and targeted against a community with such a strong mission driven purpose.
It has also been adapted into humourous backronyms, for instance "Big Cockroach Hoarders", as with the Big Costco Hotdogs.
"Bitcoin CockroacH" is sometimes shortened to "Broach", as in the "Bro-roaches" or BCH being a subjected that "cannot be broached" (which is literally true as seen in coordinated censorship campaigns against it).
Unearthed footage of the BCH community.
If you're active on social media, maybe join in yourself! Feel free to make any cockroach related memes or jokes, particularly when BCH is showing resilience and unstoppability!
