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Bitcoin Nano (BTN)BTN

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A snapshot fork of Bitcoin at block 501,888 at 1 BTC = 1,000 BTN, with Equihash, 8 MB blocks and planned EVM side chains; a 2019 review called it abandoned.

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The wiki's angle: Bitcoin Nano took the same block as Bitcoin Pizza and shows the snapshot model, where a fork copies balances but not history.[1][2]

Contents

  1. Snapshot
  2. Design
  3. References

Snapshot

The README says “Bitcoin Nano (BTN) is a snapshot fork of Bitcoin” taken at block 501888, with holders receiving “1 BTC = 1000 BTN”[1]. The 2019 fork list calls it a “snapshot fork (no shared pre-fork blockchain history)” and writes the ticker as Nano[2].

Design

The README lists Equihash, an 8 MB block size and smart contracts “via the side-chain technology, compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)”[1]. Its numbered feature list repeats text under the wrong headings, describing side chains under “Mining Algorithm”[1]. The fork list's verdict was “seems abandoned”[2].

References

  1. primaryBitcoin Nano README, GitHub bitcoinnano/Bitcoin-Nano [archived]
  2. secondary“My list of 43(+3) reviewed Bitcoin forks”, Bitcointalk topic 2777849 (last update 26 Feb 2019) [archived]

Related

Bitcoin Pizza (BPA)
A fork at block 501,888 at the end of 2017, announced with a 1:1 airdrop and a planned later swap to a DAG cha
Bitcoin 2 (BTC2)
A proof-of-stake snapshot fork of Bitcoin balances at block 507,850, with masternodes and Zerocoin-based zBTC2
MicroBitcoin (MBC)
A 2018 hard fork at a 1 BTC = 10,000 MBC ratio that changed proof of work three times and in 2019 restarted on
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