It seems that the article was a draft and they have been corrected on the mistake they made during the draft.
It's perfectly understandable that in the process of compiling research, they would have made some mistakes, especially considering the amount of biased information that's available on either side.
Still, government-related groups should certainly know where to look - it shouldn't take long to go on the Bitcoin Core website or Github and figure out that SegWit is a soft fork.
Topic: US Government Claims Bitcoin Cash Is ‘Original’ Bitcoin - page 2. (Read 244 times)
If that were true then one would have to act to avoid holding BCC. In fact one had to claim their BCC because BCC was a fork of actual bitcoin. Whoever wrote this can say whatever they want. They can claim POTcoin is the real bitcoin. whatever.
A US government institute has claimed Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is the “original” Bitcoin while Bitcoin itself (BTC) is a “fork” in a surprising official research into cryptocurrency.
In a document titled “Blockchain Technology Overview” from the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the US Department of Commerce, authors Dylan Yaga, Peter Mell, Nik Roby and Karen Scarfone claim that “technically,” the perception that BTC is the genuine version of Bitcoin is incorrect.
“When SegWit was activated, it caused a hard fork, and all the mining nodes and users who did not want to change started calling the original Bitcoin blockchain Bitcoin Cash (BCC),” they write.
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https://cointelegraph.com/news/fork-fail-us-government-claims-bitcoin-cash-is-original-bitcoin
In a document titled “Blockchain Technology Overview” from the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the US Department of Commerce, authors Dylan Yaga, Peter Mell, Nik Roby and Karen Scarfone claim that “technically,” the perception that BTC is the genuine version of Bitcoin is incorrect.
“When SegWit was activated, it caused a hard fork, and all the mining nodes and users who did not want to change started calling the original Bitcoin blockchain Bitcoin Cash (BCC),” they write.
Read more
https://cointelegraph.com/news/fork-fail-us-government-claims-bitcoin-cash-is-original-bitcoin
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