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A December 2017 fork marketed with smart contracts and 8 MB blocks, listed by a long roster of exchanges at launch.

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The wiki's angle: Super Bitcoin shows how cheaply exchange support came in December 2017. Twenty-plus venues announced support for a fork whose own README called it experimental.[1][3]

Contents

  1. Launch
  2. Pitch
  3. References

Launch

The official announcement thread states that the fork happened at block height 498,888[1]. Bitcoin block 498,888 has a header time of 12 December 2017, 10:29:53 UTC[2].

Pitch

The project's README calls Super Bitcoin “an experimental hard fork of Bitcoin” that tries to implement features Bitcoin community members had long requested[3]. Its announcement thread headline advertised smart contracts, 8 MB blocks and privacy, and listed more than twenty exchanges that supported the fork, including OKEx, Huobi, Bitfinex, Binance and HitBTC[1].

References

  1. primary“Super Bitcoin” official announcement thread, Bitcointalk topic 2546577 (opened 8 Dec 2017) [archived]
  2. primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 498,888 (header time 2017-12-12 10:29:53 UTC) [archived]
  3. primarysuperbitcoin/SuperBitcoin README (GitHub) [archived]

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