Bitcoin Cash: no founder, an inherited cap, and two splits in three years
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.
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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.
Bitcoin Institute ↔ Vitalik Buterin, Charlie Lee, Charles Hoskinson, Anatoly Yakovenko, Jeremy Allaire, Riccardo Spagni, Jed McCaleb, Jackson Palmer, Donald Trump
Twelve chains, sorted by what each one's issuance rule settles about the price of a single unit — and by how much of that price the rule never touches.
Craig Wright ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto
The only candidate who claimed the identity himself — declared in coordinated BBC and Economist interviews in May 2016, cryptographic proof in hand. The evidence, weighed.
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.
French software engineer. Founded Bitcoin ABC, led the 2017 BCH hard fork, defended BCH in the 2018 BSV hash war, led the 2020 split into eCash.
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).
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.
Mike Hearn ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright
Mike Hearn testifies at the COPA v Wright trial, recounting his direct interactions with Satoshi and describing how Wright failed his technical check questions at a 2016 dinner.
Craig Steven Wright (born 1970): Australian computer scientist who publicly claimed to be Satoshi in May 2016. UK High Court (COPA v Wright, March 2024) found he fabricated evidence on a grand scale.