Bitcoin God (GOD)GOD
Chandler Guo's “Christmas” fork of Bitcoin: announced for 25 December 2017 at block 501,225, it actually split on 27 December and switched to proof of stake after two super blocks.
The wiki's angle: Bitcoin God is the fork era at its most self-aware. Guo framed it as candy for every holder, the README promised to end “the current Bitcoin forking chaos” by adding another fork, and Bitcoin's own block timing missed Christmas by two days.[1][6][4]
Announcement
On 4 December 2017 Chandler Guo tweeted that Bitcoin God would be “forked off the main bitcoin chain at the block height of 501225, which will happen on December 25th to be symbolic of me giving candy to all Bitcoin Holders”, with 21 million coins and no premine[1]. When followers asked whether it was a joke, he replied that it was real[2]. Guo had signed the New York Agreement earlier that year as Bitangel.com / Chandler Guo[3].
The fork
Bitcoin block 501,225 has a header time of 06:55:44 UTC on 27 December 2017, two days after the date Guo had picked[4]. KuCoin announced that day that the chain had forked “at around the block height of 501225” and that it would credit GOD 1:1[5].
Design
The README describes a fork after block 501,225 with a per-block difficulty adjustment, SIGHASH_FORK_ID replay protection, addresses starting with g and a proof-of-stake consensus system[6]. The client's consensus header sets SUPER_BLOCK_HEIGHT to 501,226 with two super blocks, and defines the last proof-of-work block as the second of them[7]. The README says 17 million coins would be airdropped to Bitcoin holders, 400,000 used as staking rewards and 3.6 million airdropped for charity by community vote[6]. Whether the chain still runs is unknown in this wiki[6].
References
- secondaryCointelegraph, “Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Forked: Investor To Release Bitcoin God”, 5 Dec 2017 [archived]
- secondaryBitcoin.com News, “More Bitcoin Fork Clones on the Way: Bitcoin God Will Be Born Xmas Day” (quotes Chandler Guo's tweet of 4 Dec 2017) [archived]
- primaryDigital Currency Group, “Bitcoin Scaling Agreement at Consensus 2017”, Medium, 23 May 2017 (Wayback Machine copy)
- primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 501,225 (header time 2017-12-27 06:55:44 UTC) [archived]
- primaryKuCoin, “Announcement regarding the Bitcoin Fork and permanent support for all forked tokens”, 27 Dec 2017 [archived]
- primaryBitcoin God README, GitHub BitcoinGod/BitcoinGod [archived]
- primaryBitcoin God src/consensus/consensus.h (SUPER_BLOCK_HEIGHT 501226) [archived]