Bitstone is the first name given to the coin that writer Oh Tae-min intended to create through a hard fork. In 2016, the Bitcoin community was locked in a heated debate over transaction capacity issues.
Author Tae-min Oh believed that if he could propose a new chain to solve Bitcoin's capacity and lost coin problems, it would gain attention. His idea was simple: a trusted company would create a foundation, hard fork Bitcoin, and increase its capacity.
Bitcoin holders would be given a claim perio...
