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.
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.
Bitcoin ABC project ↔ Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Amaury Séchet
Bitcoin Cash forked from Bitcoin after block 478558; ViaBTC mined its first block (1.9 MB) at 18:12 UTC. The 8 MB chain without SegWit became the first protocol fork to last as a separate network.
Bitcoin Institute ↔ Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Amaury Séchet, Mike Belshe, Gregory Maxwell, Pieter Wuille, Wladimir van der Laan
Bitcoin's 2015–2017 block-size war by phase, faction and turning point: Bitcoin XT, the BIP148 UASF, the New York Agreement, Bitcoin Cash and the cancellation of SegWit2x.
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.
Chinese entrepreneur (1986–). Translated Bitcoin whitepaper into Chinese (2011), co-founded Bitmain (2013), backed Bitcoin Cash with hashpower (2017), later founded Matrixport and Bitdeer.
Entrepreneur (1979–). Memory Dealers founder, early Bitcoin angel investor, bitcoin.com operator, Bitcoin Cash advocate. Renounced US citizenship 2014; arrested in Spain April 2024.
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).