Last time I travelled to Scotland was in 2002. I was a student still and I hitched my way around Scotland and mainly the Inner and Outer Hebrides, visiting many of the islands. Within our sailing team, we talked about going to Scotland for several years and this year we finally went. If you want to read about our short trip, keep reading.

Largs

Friday night we flew from Prague to Glasgow, overnighted there and in the morning did some provisions shopping and walkabout of Glasgow city centre. Around noon we took an Uber straight to Largs marina, since the cost was equivalent of us taking the train and then a taxi from Largs railway station to the marina. The marina is situated about 3 kilometers from Largs centre, a nice stroll by the coast, but obviously sans the luggage we had with us.

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Maybe you’ve heard about the recent attack on Bitcoin Gold exchanges, where the attackers stole some BTG using a form of double-spend attack.

Now, you might start to wonder: How is that possible? The genius of blockchain is in preventing exactly this type of attack. But this crucial property holds only under certain network conditions. Let’s explore how such an attack is possible and what you can do to protect against it.

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This article closes the series about dumping Bitcoin forks, which started with this post. In the previous instalments we introduced various ways how to claim and dump them. The most valuable forks were described in more detail. This article will sum up all the other forks I claimed and dumped, since they do not deserve their own full post.

Make sure, before doing anything, to read the safety notice in the introductory post. To be honest, none of the forks in this post are worth the time unless you have hundreds of BTC (in which case, you probably don’t need to bother anyway) or you have a lot of spare time on your hands. Or you do this for fun, like I did.

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In any non-trivial system, failure is inevitable and incidents happen. How we deal with the incidents aftermath determines if they just cost money or we gain something from them.

I’ve heard John Allspaw say a quote about incidents or outages, which fits perfectly:

Incidents are unplanned investments in your company’s survival.

So you have made this “investment”, everything is back up and running and now you should get as much value from it as possible. The first part of this process is conducting a post mortem.

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Timeouts are a simple yet powerful mechanism that can prevent system failures and ensure reliability. However, they are often overlooked in software development, leading to potential issues like hanging processes or resource exhaustion. This article explores the importance of setting appropriate timeouts and provides practical insights on how to implement them effectively. Learn why timeouts are crucial for building resilient and efficient systems.

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It becomes increasingly difficult to write something about particular fork, as they are getting indistinguishable. This time, we’ll dump BitcoinX (BCX). So in this article I will focus more on yet another method of claiming, which is mildly interesting, without commission and can be used for many forks.

As usual, go read the Safety notice in my initial post in this series), if you haven’t done so yet.

About BitcoinX

So BCX is yet another fork, with a pretty homepage listing all the same stuff all the other forks do. As far as I can tell, the only change they did is move the decimal point in balances, so for every 1 BTC you get 10000 BCX. The rest is pretty much the same, but then again, who cares anyway, am I right or am I right?

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If the ways I dumped Bitcoin Cash, Gold, Diamond and Super were too boring for you (they were, indeed), this time we’ll get our hands a bit more dirty. If you follow this story, you will become richer. That is, richer with knowledge, because there is not much to be made off dumping Bitcore (BTX).

As usual, go read the Safety notice in my initial post in this series, if you haven’t done so yet.

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Getting into more obscure forks (but believe me, there are many more to come), I decided to do a double take, because I got rid of these two the exactly same way. The previous cases were both 1:1 forks, meaning you got one unit for one BTC. This time we’ll see first case of unit change, which I think is a clever trick, to be honest.

If you haven’t done so yet, please read the Safety notice part in my introductory post to this series.

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The second most prominent Bitcoin fork was created about three months after Bitcoin Cash, which I wrote about in previous part of this series. If BCash wanted to solve the capacity problem by increasing block size, Bitcoin Gold (BTG) tried to “democratize” mining. The financial interests of their creators might also have played a tiny bit of a role in creating them, I suspect.

If you haven’t done so yet, please read the Safety notice part in my introductory post to this series.

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Bitcoin Cash or BCash (BCH) was the first prominent fork, which started all the later craze by it’s relative success. If you are going to claim just one fork this should probably be it. Contrary to common sense, at the time of writing this article, it’s valued at about 15% of Bitcoin value.

If you haven’t done so yet, please read the Safety notice part in my introductory post to this series.

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