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What's with the cockroaches?

BCH 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

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).

Cockroach

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!