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Bitcoin Silver (BTSI)BTSI

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Announced only: no chain or code was ever confirmed. Kept off the lineage map; the date is the announcement date.

An October 2017 fork announcement for an Equihash chain with 30-second blocks, whose text was copied from Bitcoin Gold's and which a 2019 review found no longer existed.

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The wiki's angle: Bitcoin Silver's own announcement says ASICs are obsolete “for mining BTG” — a copy-paste fingerprint of how many 2017 forks were cloned from Bitcoin Gold's pitch.[1]

Contents

  1. Announcement
  2. Fate
  3. References

Announcement

Simonsolo opened “Bitcoin Silver - Make Bitcoin Decentralized Again” on Bitcointalk on 24 October 2017[1]. A follow-up post said “The block interval will be lowered to 30 seconds” and gave a supply of 21 Million, Equihash, GPU mining and replay protection[1]. The text also says ASICs are “obsolete for mining BTG”, wording taken from Bitcoin Gold[1].

Fate

The 2019 fork list gives its date only as “COMING 31TH DECEMBER 2017”, notes “no source code available” and says it “doesn't seem to exist (anymore)”[2]. One reply in the thread asked whether “100K will be premined for devs”[1].

References

  1. primarySimonsolo, “Bitcoin Silver - Make Bitcoin Decentralized Again”, Bitcointalk topic 2311582 (24 Oct 2017) [archived]
  2. secondary“My list of 43(+3) reviewed Bitcoin forks”, Bitcointalk topic 2777849 (last update 26 Feb 2019) [archived]

Related

Bitcoin Gold
The October 2017 fork that switched to GPU-mined Equihash, and later suffered repeated 51% attacks.
Bitcoin Platinum (BTP)
A December 2017 Equihash fork; Cointelegraph reported a Korean-language post calling it a scam, which the team
Bitcoin Uranium (BUM)
An October 2017 fork announcement with Equihash, one-minute blocks and a 450-day halving, pitched as having no
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