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Bitcoin Air (XAP)XAP

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Not a single-parent Bitcoin split: a merge airdrop to Bitcoin and Peercoin holders. Kept off the lineage map.

A Bitcoin + Peercoin merge airdrop with a Thanksgiving 2018 snapshot, hybrid PoS/PoW and a carbon-credit-backed stablecoin side-chain plan.

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The wiki's angle: Bitcoin Air is a two-parent airdrop, mixing Bitcoin's holder base with Peercoin's consensus, and it says it is not tied to Peercoin's teams.[1]

Contents

  1. Design
  2. Record
  3. References

Design

The archived site, captured on 27 October 2018, calls Bitcoin Air “a bilateral merge fork between Bitcoin ($BTC) and Peercoin ($PPC)” and says the team was still discussing adding Bitcoin Cash[1]. It says it combines Bitcoin's user base “with the environmental and user-friendly consensus method of Peercoin” and plans a stable side-chain backed by carbon credits[1]. Its listed specifications include 21,000,000 XAP in circulation, a 42,000,000 XAP tail emission, hybrid PoS/PoW, a four-minute block time and 16MB blocks[1]. It adds: “We are in no way associated with the Peercoin Foundation, Peercoin Development Team, or Peercoin Community Team.”[1]

Record

The site set “Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd, 2018” as the snapshot date[1]. forkdrop's data file gives block 551000 and a maximum supply of 41,000,000[2]. Block 551,000 was mined late on 21 November 2018 UTC[3]. The Bitcointalk thread was opened by its bounty manager on 4 October 2018[4]. Its state after early 2019 is unknown[2].

References

  1. primaryBitcoin Air website, bitcoinair.org (Wayback Machine copy, 27 Oct 2018)
  2. secondaryforkdrop.io data file json/index.json, the per-coin table behind its fork pages (Wayback Machine copy, 13 Jan 2021)
  3. primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 551,000 (header time 2018-11-21 23:50:39 UTC) [archived]
  4. primaryParodium (bounty manager), “[ANN] Bitcoin Air … World's First Multi Blockchain Fork”, Bitcointalk topic 5044039 (4 Oct 2018) [archived]

Related

Peercoin
The first cryptocurrency to use proof of stake, launched in August 2012 on a Bitcoin-based codebase.
Claim-based airdrops
Coins that were not chain splits but let Bitcoin holders claim new tokens: CLAMs, Byteball, Stellar, Bitcore,
bitcoinClean (BCL)
An April 2018 fork at block 518,800 that promised mining only with renewable energy through a peer-reviewed “p
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