Development Bitcoin Gold Core v0.17.1: Code is ready; now under testing (progress: 90%) Compact Block Relay for BTG is implemented in BTG Core v0.17.1 and btgsuite (progress: 100%) btgsuite: replay attack protection and Compact Block Relay being tested Progress on Secret Mining defense research in partnership with Exchanges; preparing white paper and request for comments Community […]
To make it easier for the Community to monitor the Bitcoin Gold Endowment, we’ve created a transparency site. Click the button to see the current balance. BTG Endowment Transparency Source Code: https://github.com/h4x3rotab/btg-transparent What’s the Endowment? The BTG Endowment supports the ongoing BTG project and is currently the only source of funding for expenses and salaries. All
It has been just over a year since the Bitcoin Gold project launched. Since then, we’ve been striving to carefully shepherd our young project towards being a fair, transparent, and above all, decentralized cryptocurrency. As the Community is aware, leadership for the project is provided by a multi-person Board. That Board, which began with the
KeepKey has full native support for Bitcoin Gold (BTG) We’re excited to hear that this beautiful and popular hardware wallet has added BTG, beginning with a Beta in July and now as an officially supported native coin. As everyone new to crypto learns, hardware wallets are among the safest places to hold your crypto coin assets. KeepKey supports
UPDATE: we’ve added an external live balance site, as described in this post. BTG Endowment Transparency Live Source Code: https://github.com/h4x3rotab/btg-transparent About the Bitcoin Gold Endowment Since the day they were first mined, the Endowment’s wallets have been public on the BTG blockchain, but rumors and misinformation persist. This post explains the Endowment mining process in detail and
Add Your Heading Text Here As you may be aware, Bitcoin Gold has a Responsible Disclosure policy listed on the website, which is basically a (bug) bounty program for reporting security vulnerabilities in our stable software versions or infrastructure. It allows people to safely report an issue to us, and if they follow the rules set out
We have a treat from our developers – a Technical Preview release of Lightning Network running on Bitcoin Gold! Our devs have successfully brought to life all the core functions for a BTG-based implementation of Lightning Network, based on LND (the Lightning
The BTG blockchain has been performing wonderfully since the successful Network Upgrade last week. If you’re using our ElectrumG wallet, make sure you update to the latest version, published last week: ElectrumG 3.2.1 ElectrumG 3.2.1 is a stable release and is fully compatible with the recently Upgraded Bitcoin Gold Network. What is ElectrumG? ElectrumG is our version
Block 536200 was mined Jul 3, 2018 at 9:59:26 PM UTC Unlocked: New PoW, Equihash-BTGUnlocked: New DAA, LWMA The Network Upgrade was a success, the blockchain is stable, and all partners can resume regular activities – including returning confirmation requirements to pre-fork levels. Now delivering: greater safety, greater stability, and renewed ASIC resistance It has been
BITCOINGOLD.ORG is online and all systems are green. Some of our services (accessed through the bitcoingold.org name) were inaccessible to the public between 13:00 UTC on 21 June and 17:10 UTC on 23 June. A team member’s recent model mobile phone with up-to-date software and patches was remotely hacked using zero-day exploits. This was a
