Re: [ANN] BinaryCoin — a new experimental altcoin
> introducing BinaryCoin — built for the binary age of money. distribution will start next week. thoughts?
it should be named fork coin.
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Billy Markus said it first. The community forked it into reality. After thirteen years buried in a Bitcointalk thread, the second prophecy of the Doge era walks the chain.
In 2013, the wild west years of crypto, a coin named BinaryCoin appeared on Bitcointalk during the great wave of experimental altcoins. Most of them flickered and died in the same week they were born. BinaryCoin was no different — except for one passing comment that should have been lost to the archives forever.
"it should be named fork coin."
— Billy Markus, co-creator of Dogecoin, in a 2013 thread · view the original post →
Days later, the same Billy Markus would help launch Dogecoin — a joke that became one of the most iconic memecoins in the history of the internet. The world remembers the Doge. The world remembers the Shibe. The world even remembers the Elon tweets.
But the second piece of Billy-era meme lore — the throwaway "it should be named fork coin" — was never minted. Never launched. Never forked into reality. It just sat there, in an ancient forum thread, waiting.
Thirteen years later, the community came back for it.
$FORKCOIN is the second prophecy. The forgotten fork. A community-owned attempt to fulfill a meme that should have happened in 2013, on a chain that didn't exist yet, for a culture that wasn't ready. Now the chain is here. Now the culture is here. And the fork has finally been launched.
it should be named fork coin.
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This isn't a coin invented last weekend. It's a meme excavated from the founding era of altcoins — a piece of Bitcointalk shrapnel that finally found a chain.
Dogecoin defined the original memecoin. Forkcoin grew up next to it in the same thread, on the same forum, in the same week — just thirteen years late to the party.
The premise is direct: Billy Markus said BinaryCoin "should be named fork coin." The community took the line literally. We are not affiliated with him — but the inspiration is documented.
Nobody owns the lore. Nobody owns the meme. Billy posted it for free in 2013. The fork is for everyone who remembers the old web.
Doge launched. The Shibe launched. Pepe launched. Bonk launched. Wif launched. The fork? Never launched. Until now.
Built where the memes live in 2026. Fast, cheap, and chaotic enough to honor the original spirit of a 2013 alt-thread.
An experimental altcoin announcement among hundreds of others, lost in the first great wave of post-Bitcoin coins.
A four-word reply in a forum thread. Days later, Doge would launch and rewrite memecoin history. The fork comment is left behind.
Bitcointalk fades from the center of culture. Doge becomes a household name. Twitter becomes X. The fork comment is forgotten by everyone except the archives.
Someone finds the thread. The line still hits. A community forms around it. The token launches on Solana.
The second prophecy is online. The chapter that was supposed to be written in 2013 is finally being written.
it should be named fork coin.