Let's talk about Bitcoin's development.
In early 2023, the Ordinals protocol took off, and users began writing data such as images into Bitcoin transactions. BRC-20 tokens followed.
One thing many people overlook: a hard fork changes rules that old nodes don't recognize. When the community is divided, the chain can split in two—that's how Bitcoin Cash came about.
When you see a fork coin claiming to be a “new version of Bitcoin,” first find out how its chain relates to Bitcoin's mainnet.
$BTC 's network launched in January 2009 and has been running for over a decade. Currently, 77968.