Bitcoin Takeover Wiki

The sourced encyclopedia of every Bitcoin fork — from Bitcoin Cash to the 2026 BLAKE2b and eCash (ECX) splits, plus the people and wars behind them. Every claim carries a source. Every podcast citation jumps to the second it was said.

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Featured: eCash (ECX)

Paul Sztorc's 2026 hard fork of Bitcoin that activates drivechains (BIP-300/301) natively. Not XEC. Read →

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… that Bitcoin Gold's first own block came nineteen days after the snapshot it inherited? (Bitcoin Gold)^[src]
… that the BLAKE2b fork picked its new proof-of-work algorithm by a lottery over Testnet4 block hashes? (Bitcoin BLAKE2b (XBT / BTCB2))^[src]
… that eCash (ECX) mainnet arrived two days before its Halloween target because the fork was set by block height? (eCash (ECX))^[src]
… that Litecoin launched with a 150-coin premine: the genesis block and the two blocks after it? (Litecoin)^[src]
… that Dash was announced on Bitcointalk as XCoin before becoming Darkcoin and then Dash? (Dash)^[src]
… that two different Bitcoin forks call themselves eCash — XEC from Bitcoin Cash and ECX from Bitcoin? (eCash (XEC))^[src]
… that the last block Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash share carries a /NYA/ tag in its coinbase? (New York Agreement)^[src]
… that Bitcoin Interest's own README missed its fork date by about two days? (Bitcoin Interest)^[src]
… that Bitcoin Gold's future public face, Jack Liao, signed the 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement? (Hong Kong Roundtable)^[src]
… that a 2010 transaction created roughly 184 billion bitcoin through an integer overflow? (Value overflow incident (2010))^[src]
… that Samson Mow is credited on the strategy games Dawn of War and Company of Heroes? (Samson Mow)^[src]
… that two mining pools ended the 2013 chain split by downgrading to Bitcoin 0.7? (March 2013 chain fork)^[src]
… that Charlie Lee relaunched a Tenebrix copy without its premine eleven days before he launched Litecoin? (Tenebrix and Fairbrix)^[src]
… that the 2016 Hong Kong statement lists a James Hilliard, Pool/Farm Admin at BitmainWarranty — the same name as BIP-91's author? (BIP-91 (reduced-threshold SegWit signalling))^[src]
… that Bitcoin Hush imported BTC balances but called itself “technically NOT A FORK, but a merged airdrop”? (Bitcoin Hush (BTCH))^[src]
… that Bitcoin Pizza's fork block arrived about eleven hours before the New Year's midnight its README predicted? (Bitcoin Pizza (BPA))^[src]
… that Bitcoin Silver's announcement says ASICs are obsolete for mining BTG, text carried over from Bitcoin Gold? (Bitcoin Silver (BTSI))^[src]
… that Bitcoin Cash Plus has two fork heights on record, 501,407 and 509,696, about seven weeks apart? (Bitcoin Cash Plus (BCP))^[src]
… that Bithereum's README gives the same fork blocks and dates as Bitcoin Gold? (Bithereum (BTH))^[src]
… that Bitcoin Smart's archived website carries a bitcoincash.org copyright line? (Bitcoin Smart (BCS))^[src]
… that CLAMs airdropped to every Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin address in 2014, three years before the fork wave? (CLAMs (CLAM))^[src]
… that FastBitcoin's README gives its snapshot as block 5001225, one zero too many? (FastBitcoin (FBTC))^[src]
… that Bitcoin Pay dated its fork to 8:15 Beijing time, matching block 499,345's 00:15 UTC header exactly? (Bitcoin Pay (BTP))^[src]
… that Lucky Coin's own history records a 2013 “Takeover” by the user Titan, and Dogecoin's client began as a fork of it? (Lucky Coin (LKY))^[src]
… that Bitcoin Ore's first coins existed only on four exchanges, and its team weighed basing it on United Bitcoin? (Bitcoin Ore (BCO))^[src]
… that Gavin Andresen's June 2017 replay draft marked opt-out transactions with an OP_RETURN reading “!segwit2x”? (Gavin Andresen)^[src]
… that Qeditas, a 2015 Bitcoin spin-off for formalized mathematics, took its snapshot up to block 350,000? (Qeditas (QED))^[src]
… that Bitcoin@CBC removed the first 50,000 blocks' unspent coinbase coins from its copy of the ledger? (Bitcoin@CBC (BCBC))^[src]
… that Oil Bitcoin (2017) and Bitcoin Oil (2019) are unrelated projects? (Oil Bitcoin (OBTC))^[src]

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Latest forks

eCash (ECX) 2026-10-29
Bitcoin BLAKE2b (XBT / BTCB2) 2026-08-30
BIP-110 (Reduced Data Temporary Softfork) 2025-12-03
The 2025 OP_RETURN fight 2025-06-09
CashTokens 2023-05-15
Ordinals and inscriptions 2023-01-20

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