Lucky Coin (LKY)LKY
A 2013 Scrypt coin from Litecoin's code with random “super blocks”; Dogecoin's client began as a fork of it.
The wiki's angle: Lucky Coin's own history line reads “Takeover: June 17, 2013 by Titan” — a community takeover, and the code that Dogecoin started from.[3][5]
Launch
LuckyC announced LuckyCoin on 24 May 2013, offering “super lucky blocks, where your reward can be x2 ,x5 and even x58!”[1]. The original specs gave 1-minute blocks and 88 coins per block, halving “every 2 years (1,036,800 blocks)”, for a total of around 200 million coins[1]. The README describes Luckycoin as “a fork of Litecoin version with random bonus blocks” using Scrypt[2].
Takeover and hard fork
A new official thread opened by Titan on 12 April 2014 gives the history “Launch: May 24, 2013 by LuckyC” and “Takeover: June 17, 2013 by Titan”[3]. On 15 October 2013 Titan announced a mandatory hard fork at block 69360, warning “Old clients will not work beyond block 69360!”[4]. The 2014 specs differ from the launch post: the reward “halves every 100,000 blocks” and the total is “around 20 million coins”[3].
Dogecoin
Dogecoin Core started as a fork of Lucky Coin and Litecoin, themselves forks of Bitcoin Core[5]. See Dogecoin[5].
References
- primaryLuckyC, “[ANN] LuckyCoin LKY | Lucky Blocks | Fast | Fun | Fair”, Bitcointalk topic 214614 (24 May 2013) [archived]
- primaryLuckycoin README, GitHub LuckyCoinProject/Luckycoin [archived]
- primaryTitan, “[ANN] Luckycoin LKY | New Official Thread | Get Lucky!”, Bitcointalk topic 568287 (12 Apr 2014) [archived]
- primaryTitan, “[ANN][LKY] Luckycoin hard fork successful! …”, Bitcointalk topic 310851 (15 Oct 2013) [archived]
- primaryDogecoin.com, “Who are the current Dogecoin developers?” (Dogepedia) [archived]