Tuesday, 22 May 2018
It isn’t just the initial coin offerings (ICOs) that are running rampant, it seems cryptocurrency forks are in close competition. Bitcoin alone has seen 44 forks of its blockchain since August last year, according to BitMEX Research. Bitcoin Cash, or BCash — launched on August 1, 2017 — was Bitcoin’s first hard fork that resulted in a blockchain split. The hard fork happened following the controversy over the integration of SegWit feature with Bitcoin’s blockchain. A host of forks have since followed — christened by adding any random word you can imagine next to Bitcoin: Candy, Pizza, God, Faith, Diamond, Gold,…
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