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
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
We’re going to share some details and analysis of our blockchain’s performance. Although our Ecosystem has been growing rapidly, we know a few parties (including a small number of exchanges) were waiting to see if the new “blockchain is stable.” With this post, we plan to lay out what we feel is compelling evidence about that and hope to
