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Bitcoin Uranium (BUM)BUM

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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 with Equihash, one-minute blocks and a 450-day halving, pitched as having no premine unlike Gold, Silver or Platinum.

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The wiki's angle: Uranium sold itself against its siblings — “No pre-mine unlike Bitcoin Gold, Silver, or Platinum” — which shows how crowded the metal-named fork shelf was by late 2017.[1]

Contents

  1. Announcement
  2. Code and fate
  3. References

Announcement

BitcoinUranium posted “Bitcoin Uranium- Make Bitcoin Great Again” on 25 October 2017[1]. It promised Equihash, a “450 days half-life”, a 21 million maximum, a 1 minute block time, “No pre-mine unlike Bitcoin Gold, Silver, or Platinum” and full replay protection[1]. The same post calls the coin BCU in one sentence and $BUM in its title line[1].

Code and fate

The README describes “a fork of Bitcoin that serves to re-decentralize the mining process of Bitcoin”[2]. The 2019 fork list gives the date only as “Coming 31th December 2017” and says it “doesn't seem to exist (anymore)”[3].

References

  1. primaryBitcoinUranium, “Bitcoin Uranium- Make Bitcoin Great Again”, Bitcointalk topic 2316506 (25 Oct 2017) [archived]
  2. primaryBitcoin Uranium README, GitHub BitcoinUranium/bitcoin [archived]
  3. 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 Silver (BTSI)
An October 2017 fork announcement for an Equihash chain with 30-second blocks, whose text was copied from Bitc
Bitcoin Platinum (BTP)
A December 2017 Equihash fork; Cointelegraph reported a Korean-language post calling it a scam, which the team
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