Forking bitcoin or altcoin

Question

Has somebody ever created own cryptocurrency based bitcoin or dash, zcash.. etc..

Answer 1

Naaah. Don't do this. Wasted your time.

Answer 2

Take care that forking doesn't expose you to network attacks.

From earlier this year:

https://blog.coinbase.com/ethereum-classic-etc-is-currently-being-51-attacked-33be13ce32de

Answer 3

I'm very surprised 😀 I've already forked bitcoin and launched own nodes. It's very interesting.