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IOTA
The IOTA token performed poorly in 2019 and was down on the year. In 2018 IOTA opened an office in Tokyo.

Security concerns
Investor Olaf Carlson-Wee disputed IOTA management's claim that the network is decentralized, with Carlson-Wee stating the network is in fact centralized because it operates based upon a central central “coordinator node.” Further, Carlson-Wee said the network would go down if the a hacker or regulator shut down the coordinator node.

Management team
Some have raised doubts about IOTA’s management team. Investor Joi Ito raised flags about the IOTA management team saying that IOTA's Sergey Ivancheglo gave “two conflicting explanations” for the security bug uncovered in September 2018. Investor Kyle Samani wrote that IOTA has “one of the worst mgmt teams in crypto.”

Jaguar PR incident
FT Alphaville ridiculed a Jaguar Cars press release that "was allegedly motivated by a last-ditch effort to draw some sort of value (a.k.a. temporary buzz) out of an otherwise failed investment...it was phrased very cleverly to give the impression that Jaguar was committing to a crypto service when it actually wasn't." In Jaguar's press release Jaguar had stated the partnership with IOTA would allow drivers to earn cryptocurrency. However, when FT writers contacted Jaguar this was later denied, and an insider confirmed the statement was false.

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Trezor, Bitfinex, and Gatecoin use both the terms Bitcoin Cash and Bcash.

Bitcoin Cash is also referred to as Bcash. Bcash Nickname Sources:

BitShares was created by an Daniel Larimer. It is described as a cryptocurrency platform,, a digital currency, or a digital exchange. It is organized as a Decentralized autonomous organization (aka DAO). The Financial Times in 2016 pointed out BitShares difficulty to operate its DAO due to conflicting interests of its voting members. Bitshares were seized (along with Bitcoin and other digital currencies), when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018 seized the assets of AriseBank for operating an illegal Initial coin offering. Bitshares was initially referred to as ProtoShares. Remittance company Bitspark based in Hong Kong raised 1.4 Million USD by doing an Initial coin offering on the bitshares platform.

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Bitcoin Cash is also referred to as Bcash.

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Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency. In relation to bitcoin it is characterized variously as a spin-off, a strand, a product of a hard fork, an offshoot, or an altcoin.

Naming Controversy
The Bitcoin Cash name was originally proposed by Chinese mining pool ViaBTC. Bitcoin Cash is also referred to Bcash. However Bitcoin Magazine, claimed some Bitcoin Cash users find the Bcash name insulting. Bitstamp and Bitfinex temporarily used the name Bcash, but after being criticized, they switched the name back to Bitcoin Cash.

Bitcoin Cash is an altcoin.

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