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Bitcoin Pay (BTP)BTP

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A December 2017 fork at block 499,345 whose first balances were snapshotted by two exchanges; no source code was found.

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The wiki's angle: Bitcoin Pay's own fork notice gave the time as 8:15 Beijing time, which is exactly the block's header time of 00:15 UTC.[1][2]

Contents

  1. Fork notice
  2. Record
  3. References

Fork notice

The archived site, captured on 1 February 2018, says “BITCOIN PAY has been successfully split at 499345 of the UTC+8 (8:15) block” and that “EXX.COM And OURDAX.COM A snapshot has been given first”[1]. Block 499,345 has a header time of 00:15:00 UTC on 15 December 2017, which is 08:15 in UTC+8[2]. The site's project table lists “Double direction replay protection”, CPU mining and a total of 2.1 Billion[1].

Record

The 2019 fork list gives “Bitcoin Pay (BTP) (1 BTC = 10 BTP)”, “fork at 499345” and “no source code available”[3]. The ticker BTP was also used by Bitcoin Platinum[4].

References

  1. primaryBitcoin Pay website, btceasypay.com (Wayback Machine copy, 1 Feb 2018)
  2. primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 499,345 (header time 2017-12-15 00:15:00 UTC) [archived]
  3. secondary“My list of 43(+3) reviewed Bitcoin forks”, Bitcointalk topic 2777849 (last update 26 Feb 2019) [archived]
  4. primaryBitcoin Platinum website, bitcoinplatinum.github.io (Wayback Machine copy, 11 Dec 2017)

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