Bitcoin Diamond (BCD)
A More ASIC-Resistant Version Of Bitcoin.- Bitcoin Diamond is a hard-fork of Bitcoin (BTC), created in November 2017. Developers of Bitcoin Diamond have set the cryptocurrency’s total supply as 210 million, 10 times more than Bitcoin.
- The network uses a X13 mining algorithm, instead of SHA-256d in the case of Bitcoin in an attempt to be ASIC-resistant.
- Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) has also adopted SegWit and the Lightning Network technology.
- Like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Diamond attempts to be used as a store of value and medium of exchange.