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FastBitcoin (FBTC)FBTC

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A fork at block 501,225 that replaced UTXOs with an account model and DPoS; the 2019 reviewer noted its code was not based on Bitcoin Core.

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The wiki's angle: FastBitcoin's own README misstates its snapshot as block 5001225, a typo for 501,225.[3][1]

Contents

  1. Pitch
  2. Code
  3. References

Pitch

The archived site says “FBTC is a hard fork of Bitcoin at block 501225 on December 27, 2017” with holders receiving FBTC “at the ratio of 1 BTC : 1 FBTC”[1]. Block 501,225 was mined that day[2]. It proposes solving UTXO inefficiency “by deploying account model” and lists DPOS consensus with a 10s block interval[1].

Code

The GitHub README says “All Bitcoin holders as of block 5001225 are now owners of Fast Bitcoin”, one zero more than the site's block 501225[3][1]. The 2019 fork list links that repository with the note “(not based on Bitcoin Core)”[4].

References

  1. primaryFastBitcoin website, fbtc.pro (Wayback Machine copy, 31 Aug 2018)
  2. primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 501,225 (header time 2017-12-27 06:55:44 UTC) [archived]
  3. primaryFastBitcoin README, GitHub fastbitcoin/fastbitcoin [archived]
  4. secondary“My list of 43(+3) reviewed Bitcoin forks”, Bitcointalk topic 2777849 (last update 26 Feb 2019) [archived]

Related

Bitcoin FILE (BIFI)
A fork at block 501,225 at 1 BTC = 1,000 BIFI; the only source this wiki has is the 2019 fork list.
Bitcoin God (GOD)
Chandler Guo's “Christmas” fork of Bitcoin: announced for 25 December 2017 at block 501,225, it actually split
New Bitcoin (NBTC)
A Chinese snapshot fork at block 501,225 with 42 million coins, 8 MB blocks and Equihash; its site claimed rep
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