Bitcoin Twitter Handle With 1 Million Followers Renounces Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin's best-known names are currently playing a guessing game after one of the industry's most controversial Twitter accounts changed its views overnight.

Bitcoin switches from Bitcoin.com to Bitcoin.org.

Bitcoin has almost one million followers, yet its name has formed a misnomer for years.

Instead of promoting Bitcoin, the account has long maligned it in favor of altcoin Bitcoin Cash after allegedly falling into the hands of major proponent, Roger Ver.

Ver denied any involvement with the account last year, while suggesting he knew its real owner.

"He supports #BCH, is well known in the Bitcoin ecosystem, but doesn't want to deal with incessant trolling so he has chosen not to make his identity public," he tweeted at the time.

"Roger claimed in the past that he knows the current owner of the handle. So, he either must know what happened with the account or there was a fallout between them. Yet he doesn't reveal any information and lets his employees run rampant on r/btc with conspiracy theories instead," it reads.

"Clearly it's been sold at least once before. They are just trying to make the account more valuable. They are either responsible for leading the account to bcashers or they are borrowing the account now. I'm keeping them blocked," the account for information resource Bitcoin-Only.com concluded on Tuesday.

The event comes as BCH and Ver face challenging times.

While Bitcoin has risen from the ashes this year, BCH has failed to do the same, currently trading at all-time lows in BTC terms.