CoinMarketCap profile for BSV: review of Gavin's draft and a tightened version

Gavin secured a contact for updating the Bitcoin SV profile on CoinMarketCap and drafted new text with AI help. This page is John's review of that draft against what we have verified, a tightened version he can paste over, and the three process points that decide whether the update sticks. The profile is the BSV Association's to submit; BSV USA helps with the facts.

1What is good in the draft

• The structure matches the sections CoinMarketCap uses: what it is, founders, what makes it unique, supply, security, where to buy, links.
• It keeps the name and ticker as they are. No rename language anywhere.
• It brings the profile up to date on Genesis and Chronicle, which the current text does not mention.
• It names the BSV Association as steward and the infrastructure team as maintainer of the node, which is current and correct.
• The supply and proof-of-work sections are accurate.

2What will get it rejected or hurt us with an exchange analyst

CoinMarketCap says it judges requests on credibility, verification and methodology, and its editors cut advocacy. Exchange analysts read the same page and treat hedging and citations as signals of a serious project.

1. Advocacy stated as fact. "The restoration of the original Bitcoin protocol" appears four times in four forms. The current profile uses "what it describes as the original Bitcoin vision," which is how CoinMarketCap writes contested claims. Keep the position, state it as the project's stated goal, and let the verifiable facts carry it.
2. The fork history is missing. Every analyst knows BSV forked from Bitcoin Cash in November 2018. A profile that omits it reads as scrubbing. One sentence fixes it.
3. The founders section dodges the founding. It names Satoshi and the Association and leaves out who led the 2018 fork. nChain and Calvin Ayre's companies are a matter of record. Craig Wright is a decision for the Association (section 5).
4. Swipes at other chains. "Without the need for insecure second-layer solutions" and "supersede traditional payment processors" will be struck by an editor and add nothing.
5. "Interactions are processed instantly." Unconfirmed transactions propagate in seconds; settlement is a block. Analysts know the difference and the association's own confirmation-depth guidance depends on it. Say propagation and fees, not instant.
6. "Virtually impossible to alter." BSV's hashrate is a small share of SHA-256 hashrate and the network had block reorganization attacks in 2021. Do not invite that comparison on the profile. State the mechanism and point to the explorer for the numbers.
7. Numbers without citations. "Blocks exceeding 2 GB" is true and understated. The largest mainnet block on record is 3.87 GB at height 725,511, mined by TAAL. Give the height so anyone can check it. Every figure on the profile should carry a height, a date or a link.
8. The where-to-buy section editorializes. "Exercise extreme caution" is not profile language, and BSV does trade on spot markets outside the United States. Say what is true: spot markets are on the Markets tab, and in the United States RockWallet sells BSV as a FinCEN-registered money services business with a South Dakota money transmitter license. "Regulated" on its own overstates it.
9. Wallet list unverified. Each wallet named should be live and maintained on the day of submission. Connor can confirm the list faster than we can.
10. Tags. CoinMarketCap assigns tags from its own taxonomy. "Store of Value" is also not how the project describes itself. Propose the tags, expect the editors to choose.

3Three process points that decide whether the update sticks

1. The form is the only door. CoinMarketCap's support site says the online request form is the only way to request an update, and it warns that people posing as CoinMarketCap staff email projects from addresses the company does not own. A direct contact can be real and helpful. Verify the person the same way we verify the Robinhood contact: a coinmarketcap.com address, a reply from it, no fee of any kind. Profile updates are free. Then submit through the form regardless, and let the contact expedite it.
2. The Association should be the submitter. The profile belongs to the project team, and CoinMarketCap weighs requests by whether the requester can substantiate them. A request from bsvblockchain.org with the Association's name on it is credible. The same text from a volunteer account is a suggestion. Connor's review should become the Association's submission, or at least a written sign-off that travels with the request.
3. Nothing public until CoinMarketCap confirms. The claims ledger already carries two unverified public statements about a CoinMarketCap remodel. The next statement should be the before-and-after, with the date the change went live.

4A tightened version, ready to paste over

Keeps Gavin's sections and most of his sentences. Every factual sentence can be checked against a public source. Square brackets mark what Connor confirms.

What is Bitcoin SV (BSV)?

Bitcoin SV (BSV) is a proof-of-work blockchain that implements the protocol described in the 2008 Bitcoin white paper. It emerged in November 2018 from a hard fork of Bitcoin Cash, which had itself forked from Bitcoin in 2017. The project's stated goal is to keep the original protocol fixed and to scale on-chain rather than through additional layers. The protocol sets no block size limit; miners set their own. The Genesis upgrade of February 2020 restored the original Script opcode set and removed most script limits, and the Chronicle release of December 2025 restored the remaining historical opcodes and the original transaction digest algorithm [Connor: confirm the activation date]. BSV is used as electronic cash and as a data ledger: applications write data and run scripts on-chain, and standard interfaces such as BRC-100 define how wallets and applications interact.

Who are the founders of Bitcoin SV?

Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous author of the 2008 white paper, whose identity is not known. The 2018 fork that created BSV was led by nChain with backing from Calvin Ayre's companies. The protocol is stewarded today by the BSV Association, a non-profit based in Zug, Switzerland. The Association's infrastructure team maintains the SV Node software and is developing Teranode, a node implementation designed for higher throughput. [Decision for the Association: whether to add one sentence on Craig Wright; see the decisions below.]

What makes Bitcoin SV unique?

Three things. A protocol its stewards commit to keeping fixed, so applications can rely on rules that do not change. On-chain scaling with no protocol block size cap: the largest block mined on the BSV main network to date is 3.87 GB, at height 725,511. And a restored Script that supports computation, tokens and data on-chain, with fees set by miners and currently a fraction of a cent for a typical transaction [Connor: confirm the current typical fee or drop the figure]. Transactions propagate across the network in seconds and are settled when mined into a block.

How many BSV coins are there in circulation?

The maximum supply is 21 million BSV. New coins are issued to miners as block rewards that halve every 210,000 blocks, roughly every four years, so the supply schedule is fixed and the network's economics shift over time toward transaction fees. Circulating supply is shown on this page.

How is the BSV network secured?

BSV is secured by SHA-256 proof of work, the same mechanism and algorithm as Bitcoin. Miners compete to produce blocks, and the chain with the most accumulated work is the valid chain. Current hashrate and difficulty are shown on block explorers such as WhatsOnChain.

Where can you buy BSV?

BSV trades on the spot markets listed on the Markets tab of this page. In the United States, RockWallet, a FinCEN-registered money services business holding a South Dakota money transmitter license, sells BSV to customers by card and bank transfer. [Connor: add any other US venue the Association can confirm.]

White paper

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," 2008.

Wallets and developer resources

[Connor confirms each is live and maintained on the day of submission:] ElectrumSV, RockWallet, HandCash, Simply Cash, Volt, BSV Browser, MetaNet Client. Developer documentation at docs.bsvblockchain.org; source code at github.com/bitcoin-sv/bitcoin-sv and github.com/bsv-blockchain.

Explorers

whatsonchain.com

Proposed tags

Algorithm: PoW, SHA-256. Category: Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash, Data Ledger, Enterprise Blockchain. Others: Mineable, Smart Contracts. Platform: Bitcoin Ecosystem. CoinMarketCap assigns tags from its own list; these are suggestions.

5Sources for the figures

• Largest block, 3.87 GB at height 725,511 (TAAL): bsvblockchain.org and the WhatsOnChain block page for that height.
• Genesis upgrade, February 2020, and the Chronicle release, December 2025: the BSV Association's upgrade history at hub.bsvblockchain.org.
• RockWallet's FinCEN registration and South Dakota license: help.rockwallet.com, "Is RockWallet regulated."
• CoinMarketCap's update process and phishing warning: support.coinmarketcap.com.
• The fork date, November 2018, block 556,766: any explorer.