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Bitvote (BTV)BTV

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A January 2018 fork at block 505,050 that switched to the CryptoNight proof of work, pitched as Satoshi's one-CPU-one-vote.

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The wiki's angle: Bitvote forked at the same block as Bitcoin Smart, so one Bitcoin block produced at least two airdrop claims.[3]

Contents

  1. Pitch
  2. Launch
  3. Record
  4. References

Pitch

The project's README says “Bitvote is a fork of Bitcoin, and its abbreviation is BTV” and that “Bitvote uses the CryptoNight algorithm, which responds to Satoshi Nakamoto's vision of one-CPU-one-vote”[1]. It promises no premining and says smart contracts and the lightning network would be added later[1].

Launch

The archived site, captured on 1 February 2018, opens with “Bitvote forked successfully” and dates the main-chain release to 2018/1/20[2]. Its FAQ says BTV would go to BTC holders “as the ratio of 1:1” and that “Its total amount is 21 million, and the block time is 2 minutes”[2].

Record

The 2019 fork list gives “fork at 505050”, the same height it lists for Bitcoin Smart, and links the repository bitcoinvote/bitcoin[3]. Block 505,050 was mined on 19 January 2018[4]. The reviewer did not test it, marking it “seems like a waste of my resources to compile/sync/test (sorry)”[3].

References

  1. primaryBitvote README, GitHub bitcoinvote/bitcoin [archived]
  2. primaryBitvote website, bitvote.one (Wayback Machine copy, 1 Feb 2018)
  3. secondary“My list of 43(+3) reviewed Bitcoin forks”, Bitcointalk topic 2777849 (last update 26 Feb 2019) [archived]
  4. primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 505,050 (header time 2018-01-19 21:58:53 UTC) [archived]

Related

Bitcoin Smart (BCS)
A fork at block 505,050 that promised 100 BCS and 100 test tokens per BTC and a built-in token exchange; no so
Bitcoin Gold
The October 2017 fork that switched to GPU-mined Equihash, and later suffered repeated 51% attacks.
Bitcoin Top (BTT)
A December 2017 fork at block 501,118 with 17 million coins for Bitcoin holders and 4 million for a community
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