Late December brought yet another gift for the cryptocurrency market crowd: a new altcoin with a pretentious name, Bitcoin God. The new cryptocurrency is a hard fork that had been announced a few weeks earlier. Bitcoin God originated from the Bitcoin blockchain at block 501 225. The man behind the latest hard fork is Chandler Guo, a Chinese businessman whose company describes itself as a “non-profit P2P organization.” Here are some of the advantages of GOD (short for “Bitcoin God”) as outlined by Guo himself: smart contract and Lightning Network support, large block size, Proof-of-Stake mining, and extra confidentiality protection thanks to Zero-Knowledge Proof technology. According to the project’s website, the number of new altcoins is limited to 21 million. 17 million of them will remain in bitcoin holders’ wallets while the remaining 4 million cryptocoins will be donated to charitable causes. For this purpose, users are encouraged to share their wallet addre...
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