BitcoinZero (BZX)BZX
Not a Bitcoin chain split: a Zerocoin privacy chain (now Firo-based) that airdropped to a Bitcoin snapshot. Kept off the lineage map.
A 2018 Zerocoin privacy coin airdropped to Bitcoin and Hexx holders from a snapshot; its 2024 client is based on Firo.
The wiki's angle: BitcoinZero borrowed the Bitcoin name and a BTC snapshot, but its code line runs through Zerocoin and Firo, which makes it a privacy-coin airdrop rather than a Bitcoin chain split.[1][3]
Contents
Snapshot
The Bitcointalk announcement thread was opened on 28 August 2018 by BitcoinZeroX[1]. A forum member quoted in the thread wrote that “all Hexx holders will receive 10 BZX per HXX they hold at the snapshot” and that Bitcoin holders would receive 1 BZX per BTC[1]. On 31 August 2018 the project account posted “The fork has been successfully completed”[1].
Code
The 2018 README describes the “Anonymous Zerocoin Protocol” and a total of 42,000,000 BZX[2]. The 2024 README, titled “Bitcoinzero [BZX] (Lelantus) Core 2024”, gives Lyra2Z as the algorithm and says the client core is “based on Firo 14.12.X”, linking it to Firo[3].
References
- primary“[ANN] Bitcoin Zero- The Privacy Standard”, Bitcointalk topic 4973001 (opened 28 Aug 2018 by BitcoinZeroX) [archived]
- primaryBitcoinzero [BZX] Core 2018 README, GitHub bzxcoin/bitcoinzero [archived]
- primaryBitcoinzero [BZX] (Lelantus) Core 2024 README, GitHub SpecialCoins/BitcoinZero [archived]