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Bitcoin DiamondBCD

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A November 2017 airdrop fork that paid 10 BCD per BTC, changed proof of work and set aside 40 million coins for a rewards pool.

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The wiki's angle: Diamond is the fork-mania template, a 10-for-1 airdrop with a large pool held back from holders. Vlad named it on S17 E19 when asking why no later Bitcoin fork matched Bitcoin Cash.[1][3]

Contents

  1. Launch
  2. Supply
  3. References

Launch

Bitcoin Diamond forked from Bitcoin at the predetermined height of block 495,866, after which its miners began creating blocks with a new proof-of-work algorithm[1]. Bitcoin block 495,866 carries a header time of 24 November 2017, 09:20:12 UTC[2].

Supply

The project states a total of 210 million BCD, of which 170 million were distributed to Bitcoin holders at 1 BTC to 10 BCD and 40 million were assigned to a community rewards pool “as tributes and mining”[1]. The README also claims an anti-replay function in both directions[1].

References

  1. primaryeveybcd/BitcoinDiamond README (GitHub) [archived]
  2. primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 495,866 (header time 2017-11-24 09:20:12 UTC) [archived]
  3. episodeS17 E19: Vlad asks why no later Bitcoin fork (Bitcoin Diamond and others) matched BCH▶ listen at 3:18:04timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]

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