Over the past year, there has been a lot of forked coins based on the Bitcoin Core (BTC) codebase in various forms and with all types of interesting names. There are anywhere between 40-70 forked coins in the ecosystem that are worth a few bucks, while some of them are worthless and not worth the time to claim. Over the past three weeks, news.Bitcoin.com started the process of collecting as many forks as we can, just to see if the processes are easy or how hard it is to claim these tokens.
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Attempting to Claim the Vast Quantity of BTC Forks
If you’ve been in the cryptocurrency space for a few years, you have definitely heard about all the forked bitcoins in existence. At the time of writing, there are roughly 40-70 coins that are snapshot-like clones with major to minor differences that reflect the BTC codebase from a certain period of time. There is bitcoin diamond (BCD), bitcoin private (BTCP), bitcoin gold (BTG), bitcoinx (BCX), bitcoin god (GOD), new bitcoin (NBTC), bitcoin cloud (BCL), bitcoin holocaust (BTHOL), bitcoin smart (BCS), and many more. Seeing how there are so many and some do have a little value, we decided to give our readers a taste of what it’s like to claim the myriad of BTC-based forks in existence.
Make Sure You Empty Your Wallet and Study the Claim Process Carefully
The first and foremost thing to do before beginning the process of claiming BTC forks is to take your BTC wallet and empty it into a completely different wallet, because you will need the empty wallet’s private keys. This means simply send your funds to a different wallet and you can
