Bitcoin Private, with the ticker BTCP, is one of the latest and more popular Bitcoin forks with a focus on privacy. It was a curious fork, because instead of just forking off of Bitcoin, BTCP is actually a combined fork of ZClassic with Bitcoin. On January 28 a snapshot was taken of all the ZCL and BTC holders, and everybody who held 1 ZCL or 1 BTC at that moment would receive 1 BTCP. Two chains, combined into one, so to speak. At the time of the fork it created somewhat of a run on Zcash, to obtain as many forked BTCP coins as possible. Bitcoin Private is, as I said, a privacy centered coin. It combines the basic features of Bitcoin, but adds ZClassic's zksnarks privacy feature to it. In addition to this, BTCP also features a slightly bigger block size to make it a little bit faster. BTCP has replay protection, which means that it's a clean fork and no 'splitting' is required. Interestingly, after the slew of 'crap' Bitcoin forks, Bitcoin Private was actually heralded as a more serious fork with actual developers and a community.
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