ViaBTC
The mining pool founded by Haipo Yang in 2016 that suggested the name Bitcoin Cash, listed it before the split, and mined its first block.
The wiki's angle: ViaBTC is the pool that turned a contingency plan into a coin: it named Bitcoin Cash, sold futures on it before the fork, and then mined the block that made the split real.[2][3]
Founding
ViaBTC's own interview with its CEO says that in May 2016 Haipo Yang “single-handedly completed all the code for the ViaBTC Pool”, and that the pool mined its first BTC block on 5 June 2016[1]. The company later launched the CoinEx exchange, CoinEx Wallet, CoinEx Smart Chain and ViaBTC Capital[1].
Bitcoin Cash
Wikipedia says that in July 2017 ViaBTC suggested the name Bitcoin Cash for the fork[2]. Bitcoin Takeover's BCH article says ViaBTC listed futures before the split and mined the first BCH-only block, 478,559, roughly six hours after the last common block[3]. Wikipedia's Jihan Wu article describes ViaBTC as a company Bitmain had invested in and says it “orchestrated” the fork, and notes that Wu denied that he or Bitmain had so much influence[4].
New York
ViaBTC (China) is on the list of New York Agreement signatories of May 2017[5].
References
- primaryViaBTC, “Interview with ViaBTC CEO: Reflections on Eight Years of Entrepreneurship”, 7 Jun 2024 [archived]
- secondaryWikipedia, “Bitcoin Cash” [archived]
- btkBitcoin Cash: The Big Block Breakaway (BTCTKVR: Forks!) [archived]
- secondaryWikipedia, “Jihan Wu” [archived]
- primaryDigital Currency Group, “Bitcoin Scaling Agreement at Consensus 2017”, Medium, 23 May 2017 (Wayback Machine copy)