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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: How Many Bitcoin Forks Are There? You will be surprised!!!
by
hv_
on 17/04/2020, 11:49:41 UTC
The first hard fork took place at block #478559 on 1 August 2017, which transformed into a Bitcoin Cash (BCH), that offers larger blocks (up to 8 megabytes at the start).
To be candid, the August 2017 Bitcoin fork was the one that held the highest uncertainty and apprehension in the crypto community. I was a noob then but I felt the tension in the market. It was as thick as a Russian snow. The market literarily paused and as soon as the fork successfully birthed BCH, everything went on a high drive and Bitcoin went on to record its ATH. Thank you OP for drawing our attention to this. Sincerely, I didn't know we had so many forks as listed.

There is only: True original BitCoin (10+ years onchain tested)

and some protocol experiments / variations - incl segwit (just since that Aug 2017)