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Bitcoin Hot (BTH)BTH

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A December 2017 chain split at block 498,848 with a new proof of work, later listed with a 1:100 ratio and no published source code, and shelved by a claiming service in 2018.

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The wiki's angle: Bitcoin Hot is a clean example of the late-2017 fork wave, where a README and a block height were most of what existed, and claiming services ended up as the only record of whether the chain worked.[1][4]

Contents

  1. Fork
  2. Record
  3. References

Fork

The Bitcoin Hot README describes a fork of the Bitcoin blockchain at block height 498848, “at roughly 12:00:00 UTC Dec 12, 2017”, after which its miners would create blocks with a new proof-of-work algorithm[1]. Bitcoin block 498,848 itself carries a header time of 04:44:12 UTC on 12 December 2017, several hours earlier than the README's estimate[2].

Record

A Bitcointalk list of reviewed Bitcoin forks, last updated in February 2019, gives Bitcoin Hot as “1 BTC = 100 BTH” and notes “no source code available”[3]. In June 2018 the Walleting.Services claiming thread said of BTH: “Network seems broken. We are putting it on the shelf for now”[4]. A user in the same thread wrote that BTH sent to ZB.com never arrived[4].

References

  1. primaryBitcoin Hot README, GitHub BitcoinHot/Bitcoinhot-EOL (fork at block 498848) [archived]
  2. primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 498,848 (header time 2017-12-12 04:44:12 UTC) [archived]
  3. secondary“My list of 43(+3) reviewed Bitcoin forks”, Bitcointalk topic 2777849 (last update 26 Feb 2019) [archived]
  4. secondaryWalleting.Services claiming thread, Bitcointalk topic 2434261, page 20 (June 2018 posts on BTH) [archived]

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