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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: How to Fork Bitcoin?
by
floaks
on 12/12/2017, 11:52:22 UTC
You need to have huge hashing power at first.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=225690.0 this can help you.

You don't need a huge hashing power, just remove the breakpoints and you will start at point zero. Just clone the Bitcoin Github source (like Litecoin, Dogecoin and so on did) and change the genesis block, change block time, total number of blocks and remove the checkpoints. If you have knowledge of c or c++ this is pretty easy. If you don't have any programming experience this might be too difficult.

The article mentioned is pretty complete.