Been seeing claims that @Doge Coin was a fork of #Luckycoin as shown on some articles and even on the official site:
https://dogecoin.com/dogepedia/faq/dogecoin-has-no-developers/
However, Billy himself has made it clear that $DOGE was actually a fork of @BellsChain $BELLS which was originally forked from Luckycoin.
Still do not believe Billy? (Are you nuts?)
Well, lets check the blockchain itself.
I am running both a $DOGE and $BELLS node.
And using some commands, I was able to get the merkle root for both of them.
And they are exactly the same:
"5b2a3f53f605d62c53e62932dac6925e3d74afa5a4b459745c36d42d0ed26a69"
I asked ChatGPT why they have the same merkleroot, this was the response:
TLDR:
"If two different cryptocurrencies have the same Merkle root, it generally indicates that they were either derived from the same source or share a similar transaction set in their genesis block."
Still not convinced?
Let us check the genesis block of Luckycoin.
Go here:
https://github.com/CrimsonLuckyLabs/Luckycoin-Wallet-v2/blob/161b5f7bb4da923caee8c1daba900ebd4848891a/src/chainparams.cpp#L177
The merkle root is:
"6f80efd038566e1e3eab3e1d38131604d06481e77f2462235c6a9a94b1f8abf9"
Totally different.
Conclusion, #Dogecoin was not a fork of Luckycoin.
In reality, it was a fork of #Bellscoin that was forked from Luckycoin.
Hopefully you learned something from this.
P.S.
Fun fact:
The genesis message is even the same, its "Nintondo"
For $DOGE:
https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/blob/b4a5d2bef20f5cca54d9c14ca118dec259e47bb4/src/chainparams.cpp#L54
For $BELLS:
https://github.com/Nintondo/bellscoinV3/blob/59addbbe37fa22b2a8a658fab6be26c015c0fcba/src/kernel/chainparams.cpp#L90
