The Course Ahead At inception, Bitcoin Gold was focused on providing a cryptocurrency in the Bitcoin model, but which was more decentralized for miners. Today, our focus is on making BTG a more trustless and useful cryptocurrency for everyone, and that change in focus is evident in our current development roadmap. While we’ve always been […]
We’re thrilled to announce BTG Core wallet v0.17.3! This important release increases the safety of the BTG blockchain against deep-chain reversions by introducing rolling checkpoint finalization. You can download the latest release here: DOWNLOADS Typical users can shut down the app, install the new version, and restart the app without issue, but it’s always best
We’re thrilled to announce BTG Core wallet v0.17.1! This major update to our Full Node wallet includes substantial new features for BTG and numerous bug fixes. You can download the latest release by clicking below: DOWNLOADS Typical users can shut down their node, install the new version, and start their upgraded node without issue, but
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
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
Summary: Our current mining algorithm, Equihash, is used by many different coins without any personalization. It was originally developed by Zcash and based on the parameter set <200,9>. We are going to upgrade to Equihash with a the parameter set <144,5>, with some customization. We’ll call it “Equihash-BTG,” for now. This will keep our blockchain
The team is hard at work preparing for a Network Upgrade to be accomplished via Hard Fork (this will not create a new coin.) We’re doing this for two reasons: we need to address the threat of ASIC miners coming into the Equihash mining space, and we need to take steps to improve the security of our
We have recently sent a detailed memo to the Exchanges who carry Bitcoin Gold, but we also wanted to be transparent and share information with the public. (If you’re with an Exchange that has not received the memo, please get in touch via the usual channels or support@bitcoingold.org.) We want you to know what’s going on,
We are releasing our Beta version of ElectrumG, our fork of the Electrum Bitcoin Wallet project for Bitcoin Gold. Electrum was first announced for Bitcoin in 2011. Since then, it has grown to be one of the most popular Bitcoin wallets, both for users and developers, and we’re thrilled to bring this well-known piece of software to the
