Perhaps because a controversial network split in Bitcoin was cancelled by its organizers last week, the cryptocurrency space has been left thirsting for some drama. Thankfully (or not, depending on how you see it), an anonymous person or group has delivered with a completely unexpected rebellion they’ve dubbed “Bitcoin Clashic.”
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So, what fresh hell is this? The trouble all started when Bitcoin Cash, itself an earlier fork of the original Bitcoin blockchain, underwent a scheduled hard fork on Monday that implemented some updates in the code. When a hard fork occurs, a new blockchain with new rules is created and everyone in the community is expected to move to the new chain, leaving the “legacy chain” to wither. This actually happened, and everyone assumed that the fork had gone smoothly. But no, oh no no nooooo.
On Tuesday, Jihan Wu, co-founder of Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain, announced on Twitter that a new block of data had appeared on the legacy Bitcoin Cash chain. Someone, apparently, was dedicating computer power to mining “blocks” of data on the old chain, for some inscrutable reason. It might have been a fluke due to some un-upgraded software. But a day later, reports of more blocks on the legacy chain started coming in on Reddit.
