Date: 2025-01-15 · basis: publication date recorded in the magazine inventory
Loko
Loko (@LoKoBTC, handle-only byline) narrates the Fork of 1492: on August 28, 2022, @caroghero forked the chain at block height 1492 because 1492 was the year Columbus sailed, and it was his first ever stack. He details Tao's side (with Vee, Chewy and BamaHodl) racing to catch up, the DM-coordinated defection of an anonymous stacker whose blocks 1498–1500 were misposted off-chain, and @fiatforassets stacking on the invalid block before deleting his post. Loko calls it possibly the most fun battle of Stackchain because so many people were involved in a 30-minute span.
Archive summary written from the sources below — not a quotation.
Some of the Stackchainers even claim it is their favorite of all the fork warshttps://www.stackchainmagazine.net/the-fork-of-1492/
It was time for me to set a precedent that would never be forgotten for all Stackchainers.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/the-fork-of-1492/
Smash buying thousands of cuckbucks worth of Bitcoin just to get a Twitter thread to go our way.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/the-fork-of-1492/
Eye-witness account of the Fork of 1492, Stackchain's rowdiest fork war.
Machine-written summary, not an editorial statement.
Stackchain Magazine article, catalogue item 41, category chain-history. Summarised by the archive from the published piece; quotes below are verbatim excerpts. Original: https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/the-fork-of-1492/