Monero’s Hard Fork “Beryllium Bullet” | What You Need to Know

Not all crypto forks are created equal… here’s what you need to know about XMR 0.13.0

Matty Bv3
4 min readOct 18, 2018
Image courtesy of SatoshiCollection on Instagram

Thursday, October 18th, the granddaddy of all privacy coins underwent a major hard fork.
Oh…you didn’t hear about this one?
That’s likely because Monero (Ticker: XMR available on Binance and most popular exchanges) has done a stellar job of controlling the narrative and branding it a ‘protocol upgrade’ rather than a ‘hard fork’.

And, yes, that’s a good thing.

(Edit 12.5.2018: While I have not received compensation, all opinions are my own, this post does include referral links where applicable)

A hard fork is little more than a protocol upgrade where mom and dad refuse to share custody.

No child of mine will be raised believing in BIP 126! (#sarcasm)

The truth is… protocol upgrades occur all the time and rarely cause problems. Ethereum has had more than it’s fair share (the Ethereum/Ethereum Classic fork obviously being an anomaly). ARK , the self-proclaimed ‘Wordpress of…

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