Bitcoin Cash Plus (BCP)BCP
A 2018 Equihash fork of Bitcoin, not of Bitcoin Cash despite its name, whose README and a third-party list give different fork heights; it stopped producing blocks in 2018.
The wiki's angle: the name says Bitcoin Cash, the code says Bitcoin. BCP shows how fork names in late 2017 were marketing, not lineage.[2]
Contents
Fork
The project README says “Bitcoin Cash Plus (BCP) is a hardfork of bitcoin-core that occurred at block 509696”[1]. A Bitcointalk list of reviewed forks gives “fork at 501407” instead; this wiki has not checked which is right[2]. Block 501,407 was mined on 28 December 2017 and block 509,696 on 18 February 2018[3][4]. A reply in the same thread said “Bitcoin Cash Plus is not a fork of Bitcoin Cash”[2].
Design and status
The README lists Equihash, an 8MB block size, a new difficulty algorithm and “2-way Replay protection (SIGHASH_FORK_ID)”[1]. The list's 26 February 2019 status says it “doesn't seem to be working anymore”, with the last synced block 536609 on 8 June 2018[2].
References
- primaryBitcoin Cash Plus README, GitHub bitcoincashplus/bitcoincashplus [archived]
- secondary“My list of 43(+3) reviewed Bitcoin forks”, Bitcointalk topic 2777849 (last update 26 Feb 2019) [archived]
- primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 501,407 (header time 2017-12-28 10:52:58 UTC) [archived]
- primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 509,696 (header time 2018-02-18 02:33:41 UTC) [archived]