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A January 2018 fork at block 503,888 at 1 BTC = 100 WBTC, with 21 million of its 2.121 billion coins held by a foundation.

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The wiki's angle: the ticker WBTC is also used by Wrapped Bitcoin, for which Wikipedia lists BitGo as sole custodian — a different thing from this 2018 fork.[5][1]

Contents

  1. Pitch
  2. Record
  3. References

Pitch

The archived site, captured on 22 February 2018, says WBTC “will start to bifurcate at Bitcoin 503888” and that Bitcoin addresses would receive WBTC “in the ratio of 1: 100”[1]. It states “The total amount of WBTC is 2.121 billion, of which 21 million WBTC will be managed by foundations” and sets the initial issuing time for 2018/1/12[1]. Block 503,888 was mined on 12 January 2018[2]. The site names Jackson Zhang as initiator[1].

Record

The GitHub README says World Bitcoin “will be based on Bitcoin and add new features”[3]. The 2019 fork list says it “doesn't seem to be working anymore, 0.4 GB, last synced block 537946 on 8/8/2018”[4].

References

  1. primaryWorld Bitcoin website, wbtcteam.org (Wayback Machine copy, 22 Feb 2018)
  2. primarymempool.space, Bitcoin block 503,888 (header time 2018-01-12 16:44:38 UTC) [archived]
  3. primaryWorld Bitcoin README, GitHub worldbitcoin/worldbitcoin [archived]
  4. secondary“My list of 43(+3) reviewed Bitcoin forks”, Bitcointalk topic 2777849 (last update 26 Feb 2019) [archived]
  5. secondaryWikipedia, “BitGo” [archived]

Related

Bitcoin World (BTW)
A December 2017 fork at block 499,777 at 1 BTC = 10,000 BTW; by February 2019 the reviewer found no nodes.
BitGo
Multisignature custody company led by Mike Belshe; a 2x supporter whose name was wrongly put on the New York A
BitcoinStake (BTCS)
A Chinese-language proof-of-stake fork at block 499,999 at 1 BTC = 100 BTCS, with 21 million of 2.121 billion
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