Not a fork, but similar. The Helium blockchain is new and has no history, coins are given to people who hold SPR at a certain block. That's an airdrop. A forked blockchain is when a blockchain splits and has the same history before the split.

No.

Got a response.

Oct 11, 12:55 PDT

Hi,

I purchased a few SPR (Spreadcoin) coins for the fork so I could receive the HLM coins but I don't have them in my wallet. Is this because Bittrex doesn't support HLM (Helium)? Are you able to receive these coins for me?

Thanks for your help

Jon

Koichi   
Koichi (Bittrex Support)
Oct 11, 15:07 PDT

Hi (email address used to send message),

It is not the responsibility of Bittrex to "claim" coins on your behalf.  If you wish to claim something, you should designate your own personal wallet as the withdrawal, airdrop, or deposit destination.

If Bittrex does not explicitly announce support for a promotion or coin feature, it is not supported.  If Bittrex decides to support credits of coins for airdrops, giveaways, staking, or any other promotion or feature of a coin that provides additional coins, it will be announced and supported publicly.

Please do not assume Bittrex will offer this support without an official announcement.  If you desire to participate in any of these features or programs, please remove your assets from the exchange to a personal wallet before doing so.
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So we won't be getting HLM... Insult to injury considering the price of SPR

Right after it launches....and not a moment sooner.

Does Helium have any connection with vTorrent?

What I really don't understand is why devs did not discuss thoroughly with some major exchanges that would have facilitated the SPR-HLM snapshot and hence gave some confidence to the participants. Cryptopia is such small exchange and rather unknown to some.

Interesting for my D3 miner where and when can mine HLM?

You are simply assuming. Here's what the team had to say on 2017-10-03:

>The reason why we are not using Bittrex is due to the changing regulatory landscape and the internal decisions that stemmed from that (more background checks on coins to be listed, legal requirements and potential lawyers, increased site security and KYC and AML applications). All of these changes put listing a new coin administering an air drop to a much lower priority from Bittrex's perspective.

AFAIK, they were in talks with trex to be the leading exchange for the swap, but then they noped out ouf it because HLM is too small for them at a time where they are strained. So they had the fall-back to topia, which is not a bad choice, considering its in the same country and quite well-run.

It is already listed, but the wallet is in maintenance mode. It will be tradeable in a few weeks time when the blockchain is established.

Will it be possible to start mining at the same time?