PORTLAND: Bitcoin God arrived last month. Bitcoin Pizza was delivered in January. Bitcoin Private’s issuance date is... still a secret.
They’re just a few of the growing stable of so-called forks – a type of spinoff in which developers clone bitcoin’s software, release it with a new name, a new coin and possibly a few new features. Often, the idea is to capitalise on the public’s familiarity with bitcoin to make some serious money, at least virtually.
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