Since the computing power war last year, BCH has forked into two currencies, BCH ABC and BSV. At that time, it was Calvin Ayre (CA), the actual controller of the blockchain company Coingeek, who provided support for BSV in the computing power war. Billionaire Calvin Ayre was once an Australian casino tycoon. The Bodog Group he founded first started from the gaming industry, and later expanded to the media and entertainment industries. It can be said that he is also a media tycoon.
From the perspective of computing power distribution and funding sources, Coingeek is like Bitmain to BCH. According to public information, the BSV project was proposed and sponsored by Antigua-based CoinGeek Mining, and its development work is under the responsibility of nChain. The project is owned by the Antigua-based Bitcoin Association, which represents the global BSV community.
In other words, until today, Calvin Ayre is still continuously providing support for BSV.
Odaily made an appointment with Calvin Ayre for an interview at the Coingeek Community Conference in Seoul, South Korea (actually BSV’s community conference). During the interview, he also told Odaily to make sure to keep the interview short because he didn't want to miss every single speech.
In this interview, he told Odaily that he started investing in BTC very early, but it was not until he met CSW (Craig S. Wright, also known as Satoshi Nakamoto in Australia) that he really understood what this technology means. So he started to support CSW, and continued to invest money here. When I asked him why he invested so much money here, he replied like most "local tyrants": "Because you always have to spend money in some places."
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The following is the essence of the interview organized by Odaily:
Odaily: When did you start paying attention to Bitcoin and blockchain?
Calvin Ayre: From the time it was first created, I began to pay attention to Bitcoin. Because Bitcoin was actually invented by people in the gaming industry, and I used to be in the gaming industry, so I invested in a few small projects. At the time, CSW (Craig S. Wright) who created Bitcoin was working under me at the time, but I didn't know him. Many people know about Bitcoin because of Craig.
Then around June or July of 2015, I met Craig, and he explained the principles to me and made me connect the dots and I finally understood what this technology meant. Since then, I've become more actively involved with the technology.
Most people didn't believe in bitcoin in the early days because it sounded too good to be true, but I did. So I worked really hard to educate people in the industry.
Odaily: You are the largest source of funding for the BSV project, including the official association of BSV, the Bitcoin Association, nChain, the main development team of BSV, and coingeek, which operates BSV mining pools and media. I believe many people want to know, why Calvin are you willing to invest so much money in BSV-related ecology?
Calvin Ayre: Because you always have to invest your money in something, you should invest in things that will become important in the future. Not to mention that BSV is already important now, and you know it will become even more important in the future.
Odaily: Do you expect them to be profitable for you in the future? Or have you calculated or planned how this investment will make you money?
Calvin Ayre: Yes, of course, some are private businesses. There is definitely going to be a profit, and there is always a plan. Coingeek also makes money from mining, but for now, especially at this conference, I hope to focus on getting people to build their own businesses on BSV. My hope is that BSV will help people do business with microtransactions, spend and acquire bitcoin with microtransactions. This is something I want everyone to focus on right now.
Odaily: Did you invest in BTC at the very beginning?
Calvin Ayre: Yes, I invested in BTC very early. To this day, I am still participating in BTC investment, and I mine BTC. I mine BTC and BSV.
Odaily: But did not mine BCH?
Calvin Ayre: Emm, BCH has no reason to exist. Everything BCH can do, BSV can do better. But BTC actually has a unique business model, which exists as a store of value, digital gold. BTC and BSV can coexist because they are completely different. BCH is like a "broken version" of BSV, their products are not good, and they don't even have a roadmap.
Odaily: So which projects do you think are the competitors of BSV?
Calvin Ayre: BSV has no competitors. Only BSV is scalable and allows commercial applications to be deployed on it, while other chains are not.
Odaily: What do you think of the huge fluctuations in the price of BSV?
Calvin Ayre: We don't look at price at all, because it has nothing to do with building applications. We are also very happy if the token price stays the same. However, in the long run, the value of storage comes from utility (application scenarios), so I certainly expect that people will slowly see the utility value of this platform.
Token prices should rise, but it has nothing to do with us. The current price fluctuations are due to the lack of market awareness, and the uneducated market is mixed with a large number of market manipulation behaviors.
Odaily: Do you remember that some exchanges delisted BSV before?
Calvin Ayre: It's illegal and unethical, it's censorship. They think that people will not know how powerful this technology is if the currency is removed from the shelves, but this does not work. And we don't need to go to the exchange, BSV is an application platform. This in turn allows our community to gain support from more technologists.
Odaily: They delisted BSV, it seems because they don't like Craig?
Calvin Ayre: It's a lie. They're afraid of Craig because he's more technically advanced, but they can't say that, so they say they don't like him. But that's not true, they're just trying to stop his words from spreading, like censorship, and obviously they haven't been successful. But again, this is a well-known lie. Everyone knows that Craig is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Odaily: However, Craig is still quite a controversial person in the cryptocurrency community.
Calvin Ayre: These controversies are fake. They don't want Craig to talk about how good the technology of this platform is, so they say that he is not Satoshi Nakamoto, and they say that they don't like him. In fact, there is no controversy at all.
Odaily: Have you ever worried that these things will affect the promotion and popularization of BSV?
Calvin Ayre: Not at all. If you attended this conference today, you will find that the BSV community is very large, not just one person. The two are completely unrelated.
