Contenders for Bitcoin fame
The glory of Bitcoin gives no sleep to many developers and an increasing number of independent dev teams believes that they are simply obliged to make another fork in the hope of getting "easy money" and recognition. We are quite skeptical about the future of most hard forks but it's possible that some of them can really get public appeal and become an alternative to the main Bitcoin.
December 13 - Super Bitcoin. Chinese fork under the motto "Make Bitcoin Great Again". Among large exchanges, this fork is supported by Bitfinex and OKEX.
December 23 - Lightning Bitcoin. CEX.io, BTCC, BtcTrade, OKEX, Huobi, TaiYi, BCEX and Allcoin were named as supporting this hard fork. However, according to the CEX.io representative, this information regarding their exchange is false. In addition, the project website is currently unavailable. The developers of Lightning Bitcoin promise to make a hard fork on the block 499 999 and release a "faster version of bitcoin." Their approach to increasing the speed is of particular interest. If the developers of the competing hard forks are trying to increase the block size, the authors of Lightning Bitcoin decided to go the other way. They are going to reduce the block time to 3 seconds. According to them, this will achieve throughput of 1 000 - 10 000 transactions per second. Users of Bitcoin, and even of its recently released copies, can only dream of such values.
December 23 - Bitcoin Platinum. The creators declare that their coin will be truly decentralized. Besides, it won't have pre-mining.
Turned out to be SCAM.
December 25 - Bitcoin God. Of the ones listed, this is the most widely supported by the community hard fork. The project page lists all major exchanges and a partnership with the NEO development team was announced.
December 31 - Bitcoin Uranium. Without pre-mining; GPU only mining. At the moment, the team does not have a website, only a thread on the bitcointalk forum.
January 2 - Bitcoin Cash Plus. At the moment there is little information about this project. Hard fork is planned for block 501407.