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Event July 27, 2026 Added July 27, 2026 Updated July 30, 2026 Currency

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

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Amaury Séchet

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 July 29, 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

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 October 31, 2008 Added May 6, 2026 Updated July 30, 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 July 27, 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 at block 478558, mined by ViaBTC around 12:37 UTC. The 8 MB, no-SegWit chain became the first protocol fork to leave a lasting separate network.

Event November 15, 2018 Added May 6, 2026 Updated July 27, 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, after a hash war between the Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV factions. The SV chain restored larger blocks and 'original' opcodes.