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ANON (Anonymous Bitcoin)ANON

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Not a Bitcoin chain split: a Zclassic-code chain that merged the BTC and ZCL UTXO sets. Kept off the lineage map.

A 2018 Zerocash-protocol coin bootstrapped from a merge of the Bitcoin and Zclassic UTXO sets, 1:1 for BTC and 2:1 for ZCL, with masternodes.

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The wiki's angle: ANON used the same recipe as Bitcoin Private, a Zclassic-code chain seeded with a snapshot of Bitcoin balances.[1][5]

Contents

  1. Design
  2. Record
  3. References

Design

The README says ANON “is an implementation of the zerocash protocol, bootstrapped with a merge of the Official Bitcoin and Zclassic UTXO sets via a snapshot and airdrop, and with the additional implementation of masternodes”[1]. The archived site, captured on 25 August 2018, says the fork gives “a 2:1 ratio of ANON to all holders of ZClassic” and 1:1 to Bitcoin holders[2]. It says ANON uses Equihash proof of work[2].

Record

forkdrop's data file gives block 540870 and a date of 2018-09-10, links a BTCManager announcement, and files it among historic entries with the reason “Reneged”[3]. Block 540,870 was mined in the first hour of 11 September 2018 UTC[4]. Bitcoin Private describes itself the same way, as “a fork of Zclassic, merging in a snapshotted UTXO set of Bitcoin”[5].

References

  1. primaryANON README, GitHub anonymousbitcoin/anon [archived]
  2. primaryANON website, anonfork.io (Wayback Machine copy, 25 Aug 2018)
  3. secondaryforkdrop.io data file json/index.json, the per-coin table behind its fork pages (Wayback Machine copy, 13 Jan 2021)
  4. primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 540,870 (header time 2018-09-11 00:59:09 UTC) [archived]
  5. primaryBTCPrivate/BitcoinPrivate-legacy README (GitHub) [archived]

Related

Bitcoin Private
A 2018 “fork-merge” that combined a Bitcoin UTXO snapshot with Zclassic's chain, then went offline in October
Zclassic (ZCL)
A November 2016 fork of the Zcash code that removed the 20% founders' reward and the slow start, later the Zca
Snapshot forks vs chain splits
Why some “forks” share Bitcoin's history and others only copy its balances, and why it matters for claiming co
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