CoinMarketCap Silently Remove Bitcoin.com from its BTC page for promoting BCH
The main cryptocurrency price tracking site CoinMarketCap (CMC) has removed the Bitcoin.com website from its Bitcoin (BTC) page as of today, May 6. Although there was no official announcement from CMC, the price tracker eliminated Bitcoin.com as BTC's secondary website, evidently as a result of recent allegations that Bitcoin.com was misleading customers into purchasing Bitcoin Cash (BCH) in Bitcoin place.
According to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, Bitcoin.com still appeared on CMC as Bitcoin's "Website 2" on May 2.
At the time of publication, CMC refers to Bitcoin.org as the only website listed for Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin.com cryptocurrency media service and cryptocurrency wallet was initiated by the cryptocurrency investor and the largest BTC turned into BCH proposer Roger Ver. After the Bitcoin blockchain had a strong bifurcation to create Bitcoin Cash in August 2017, Bitcoin.com launched a cryptocurrency wallet that automatically creates BTC and BCH accounts, with Bitcoin Cash appearing first as the default option.
At the time of publication, Bitcoin.com still offers users the BCH by default, keeping the BTC as a second option, confusingly called "Bitcoin Core", the name of the BTC software client.
On April 27, a pro-BTC user group created a site to raise funds for a lawsuit alleging that Bitcoin.com intentionally deceived users into buying BCH instead of BTC. However, shortly after, the initiator of the movement announced that they could not raise enough funds to file a lawsuit and reimbursed those who donated to the cause.
Earlier today, the Cointelegraph reported that former Wall Street executive Michael Novogratz intervened in the battle between BTC and BCH over the 'Bitcoin' brand. In response to a tweet from BCH's Twitter manager @Bitcoin, Novogratz claimed that the BTC was, in fact, the real Bitcoin, saying: "It's enough, Bitcoin core is BTC, it's a stock shop, it's digital gold. It's bitcoin cash dwarf market capital. "
Meanwhile, the CEO of Bitcoin.com continues to promote BCH as a "better currency" and "better value storage" than Bitcoin on Twitter.