Ixcoin and I0coinIXC
Ixcoin (August 2011), a premined Bitcoin code fork with double the block reward, and I0coin, its no-premine copy a week later.
The wiki's angle: the Ixcoin and I0coin pair is the 2011 template for every fork argument that followed — a premined copy, then a 'fair' copy of the copy within a week.[1][3]
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Ixcoin
Nasakioto's PGP-signed announcement of 10 August 2011 said “Ixcoin is a fork of Bitcoin with twice the inflation rate of 96 Ixcoins per block and the same 21 million total limit”[1]. It used a new genesis block, so “Bitcoins will not be valid in the Ixcoin blockchain and vice-versa”, moved the ports to 8337 and 8338, and said there were “~580K Ixcoins (as of 10th August 2011) in existence”[1]. The Litecoin Wiki's history table describes Ixcoin as “Higher block reward, premined”[2].
I0coin
On 11 August 2011 BitcoinBug proposed “I0coin (= Ixcoin with 0 pregenerated blocks)”, predicting that people “would jump from Ixcoin in notime”[3]. The Litecoin Wiki dates I0coin to 16 August 2011 by kr105, described as “Ixcoin without premine”[2].
Later
The current IXCoin Core README describes Ixcoin as “merged mined with Bitcoin”, the same route Namecoin uses[4]. When Ixcoin adopted merged mining is not yet sourced in this wiki[4].
References
- primaryNasakioto, “[ANNOUNCE] Ixcoin - a new Bitcoin fork”, Bitcointalk topic 36218 (10 Aug 2011, PGP-signed) [archived]
- secondaryLitecoin Wiki, “History of cryptocurrency” (Wayback Machine copy, 11 Jun 2016)
- primaryBitcoinBug, “New Ixcoin fork -> I0coin”, Bitcointalk topic 36425 (11 Aug 2011) [archived]
- primaryIXCoin Core README, GitHub IXCore/IXCoin [archived]