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BitCore (BTX)BTX

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Not a Bitcoin chain split: a new chain with its own genesis block that credited BTC holders who claimed. Kept off the lineage map.

A new-genesis coin launched in April 2017 that let Bitcoin holders claim BTX against two Bitcoin snapshots, so it is often listed as a Bitcoin fork although it does not share Bitcoin's history.

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The wiki's angle: BitCore sits in this wiki's fork list because exchanges and fork trackers list it there, but it is the clearest case of an airdrop dressed as a fork. Its own code starts from a fresh genesis block in April 2017 rather than from Bitcoin's chain.[1][2]

Contents

  1. Not a chain split
  2. Design
  3. Thread history
  4. References

Not a chain split

BitCore's chain parameters define a fresh genesis block with the timestamp 1492973331 and the message “Powerde by Bitsend-Europecoin-Diamond-MAC-B3 23/Apr/2017”, so its history does not include Bitcoin's blocks[1]. Its README describes the link to Bitcoin as a claim: about five million Bitcoin addresses from a snapshot at block 492,820 on 2 November 2017 “are able to claim BitCore BTX for free”, after an earlier snapshot at block 463,604 whose claim window ended on 30 October 2017[2].

Design

The README lists SegWit, unique address prefixes, a Dash-style masternode system with 2,100 BTX per masternode, a 220-byte data carrier limit and its own proof-of-work algorithm as the main differences at launch[2]. The current announcement thread gives a 21 million supply, a 2.5-minute average block time, 10 MB blocks (20 MB with SegWit) and halvings like Bitcoin's[3]. It says a new GPU-oriented algorithm, Mega-BTX, was launched on 1 September 2020 and that masternodes receive half of all newly generated coins[3].

Thread history

The Bitcointalk thread was started by the user Limx Dev, with the first replies dated 23 April 2017 under a “[PRE ANN]” subject, and its opening posts have been edited as recently as September 2026[3]. Exchange listings, prices and the current number of masternodes are not tracked in this wiki and are unknown here[3].

References

  1. primaryBitCore (BTX) src/chainparams.cpp (genesis block, timestamp 1492973331) [archived]
  2. primaryBitCore (BTX) README, GitHub LIMXTEC/BitCore [archived]
  3. primary“[ANN][Main] Bitcore-BTX- Bitcoin UTXO Fork 2017”, Bitcointalk topic 1883902 (opened 23 Apr 2017, OP Limx Dev) [archived]

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