Amaury Séchet

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Event July 27, 2026 Added July 27, 2026 Updated October 13, 2026 Altcoin / Stablecoin

Bitcoin Cash: no founder, an inherited cap, and two splits in three years

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Amaury Séchet, Craig Wright

Bitcoin Cash inherited Bitcoin's ledger and 21 million cap at the 2017 fork, then split twice more under implementation teams with no single founder to arbitrate.

Event August 15, 2015 Added June 2, 2026 Updated October 14, 2026 Analysis

The block-size war (2015–2017) — Bitcoin XT, BIP148, the New York Agreement, and the Bitcoin Cash fork

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Amaury Séchet, Mike Belshe, Gregory Maxwell, Pieter Wuille, Wladimir van der Laan

Cross-cutting reading of Bitcoin's 2015–2017 block-size war by phase, faction, and turning point: Bitcoin XT, BIP148 UASF, the New York Agreement, Bitcoin Cash, SegWit2x cancellation.

Event August 15, 2015 Added May 9, 2026 Updated October 13, 2026 Analysis

Why Bitcoin's fork wars were not OSS fork wars — the vacuum Satoshi left, the money on top, and the three layers that bind

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, Peter Todd, Gregory Maxwell, Adam Back, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Mike Belshe, Vitalik Buterin, Daniel Larimer, Satoshi Nakamoto

Why Bitcoin's 2015-2017 fork wars ran as identity contests, not OSS disputes: the post-2011 authority vacuum, the economic weight on rule choices, and the three layers that bound code to currency.

Event April 1, 2011 Added May 6, 2026 Updated October 10, 2026 Biography

Roger Ver (1979–) — Early Bitcoin angel investor, Bitcoin Cash advocate, 'Bitcoin Jesus'

Roger Ver

Entrepreneur (1979–). Memory Dealers founder, early Bitcoin angel investor, bitcoin.com operator, Bitcoin Cash advocate. Renounced US citizenship 2014; arrested in Spain April 2024.

Event August 1, 2011 Added May 6, 2026 Updated October 10, 2026 Biography

Jihan Wu (1986–) — Bitcoin whitepaper's Chinese translator, Bitmain co-founder, Bitcoin Cash backer

Jihan Wu

Chinese entrepreneur (1986–). Translated Bitcoin whitepaper into Chinese (2011), co-founded Bitmain (2013), backed Bitcoin Cash with hashpower (2017), later founded Matrixport and Bitdeer.

Event October 31, 2008 Added May 6, 2026 Updated October 14, 2026 Analysis

Bitcoin's family tree: forks, altcoins, and the mainline Bitcoin that endured

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Amaury Séchet, Craig Wright, Jihan Wu, Mike Belshe, Roger Ver, Vitalik Buterin

Genealogy of every Bitcoin protocol fork that left a separate chain alive (Bitcoin Cash, SV, Gold) and the adjacent cryptocurrencies derived from Bitcoin (Namecoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin).

Event August 1, 2017 Added May 6, 2026 Updated October 10, 2026 Article

Bitcoin Cash splits at block 478558 — the block-size war's first surviving fork (August 2017)

Bitcoin ABC project ↔ Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Amaury Séchet

Bitcoin Cash forked from Bitcoin after block 478558; ViaBTC mined its first, 1.9 MB block at 18:12 UTC. The 8 MB, no-SegWit chain became the first protocol fork to leave a lasting network.

Event November 15, 2018 Added May 6, 2026 Updated October 10, 2026 Article

Bitcoin SV splits from Bitcoin Cash — Wright and Ayre's 'original protocol' chain (November 2018)

nChain / CoinGeek ↔ Craig Wright

Bitcoin SV (Satoshi Vision) split from Bitcoin Cash on November 15, 2018, and a hash war with the Bitcoin ABC faction followed. The SV chain restored larger blocks and 'original' opcodes.