The recently concluded Deconomy Forum included a lot of proponents from the cryptocurrency space who talked about the developments and updates in the industry as well as the future of digital assets. The roster included luminaries and critics of the space, ranging from Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin to Nouriel ‘Dr.Doom’ Roubini.

Vitalik Buterin, who has been an avid supporter of the Bitcoin ABC camp since the Bitcoin Cash hard fork, confirmed his allegiance yet again when he spoke against the Forum including “BSV shills” in its panel. Buterin tweeted:

“Kinda disappointed @Deconomy_forum  is again giving airtime to BSV shills, this time a panel of them.At least there’s some hilarious quotes… my favorite was that Segwit is bad because separating signatures from transactions “has legal ramifications”

The part of “Segwit is bad” is something that was built on a shaky foundation because recent reports had shown that SegWit-spending payments had reached an all-time high, nearing almost 50 percent. Segwit spending basically refers to:

“A transaction that spends one or more SegWit outputs is considered a SegWit-transaction. The organization then aggregates the payments from SegWit-transactions per day and compare them to the number of total payments per day resulting in the percentage of SegWit-spending payments.”

The Ethereum co-founder was not the only one who expressed his disappointment over BSV supporters speaking at the conference as he was also joined by personalities like Andreas Antonopoulos and Luke Dashjr.

Antonopoulos, the author of Mastering Bitcoin, commented:

“Yeah, disappointing. There’s a general click-bait attitude in the selection of topics and sessions. I guess this kind of drama sells tickets, but it imposes a cost for the entire industry.”

Luke Dashjr said,

“Ironically, they’re not even separated (except by some definition of “separated” which is inherently ALWAYS true, because you can’t sign the signature).”

Not everyone agreed with Buterin though and was crticized by Peter McCormack. McCormack called out Buterin and asked,

“Why do people from Ethereum have more right than people from BSV to be at the conference?”

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