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Chandler Guo

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Chinese Bitcoin investor and miner who announced the Bitcoin God fork for Christmas 2017 and later promoted EthereumPoW.

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The wiki's angle: Guo appears at two forks five years apart, Bitcoin God in 2017 and EthereumPoW at Ethereum's move to proof of stake, and on the show the second was called a cash grab.[1][3]

Contents

  1. Bitcoin God
  2. EthereumPoW
  3. References

Bitcoin God

Cointelegraph described Chandler Guo as a “Chinese Bitcoin and Blockchain Angel Investor” who announced his own Bitcoin hard fork, Bitcoin God, to fork off on 25 December 2017 “to be symbolic of me giving candy to all Bitcoin Holders”[1]. Asked whether it was a joke, Guo confirmed it was “real”[1]. Bitcoin.com News also reported the plan in December 2017[2].

EthereumPoW

Bob Summerwill said on Bitcoin Takeover that “EthereumPoW was really promoted by Chandler Guo”, whom he described as “one of the major Chinese miners” who had also been around at the time of the Ethereum and ETC split[3]. He called EthereumPoW “blatantly a cash grab”[3]. See Ethereum Classic[3].

References

  1. secondaryCointelegraph, “Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Forked: Investor To Release Bitcoin God”, 5 Dec 2017 [archived]
  2. secondaryBitcoin.com News, “More Bitcoin Fork Clones on the Way: Bitcoin God Will Be Born Xmas Day” (quotes Chandler Guo's tweet of 4 Dec 2017) [archived]
  3. episodeS17 E42: Bob Summerwill on EthereumPoW and Chandler Guo▶ listen at 2:36:16timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]

Related

Bitcoin God (GOD)
Chandler Guo's “Christmas” fork of Bitcoin: announced for 25 December 2017 at block 501,225, it actually split
Ethereum Classic (comparison — not a Bitcoin fork)
Not a Bitcoin fork: the original Ethereum chain that kept running when the Ethereum Foundation's July 2016 har
Bitcoin Gold
The October 2017 fork that switched to GPU-mined Equihash, and later suffered repeated 51% attacks.
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