BTG AMA

Announcements, General, Progress Update, Updates
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April brought a variety of news for the BTG community. Some, we did not plan – like when Binance added new BTG trading pairs, and then added BTG margin trading. Others were totally our doing – like when we published our updated Roadmap for 2021.
The new Roadmap has generated a lot of questions… and we’d like to provide a lot of answers. So, to make it easier for folks, we’re holding our first self-hosted AMA on our Discord server this upcoming Saturday.

BTG Roadmap 2021

Announcements, Development, Press Release, Updates
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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

Things are Brewing at BTG

Announcements, General, Updates
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Hi! We haven’t published in a while. It was a very long crypto winter, but our hibernation has come to an end. We want you to know that we’ve been more active over the past year than a lot of people think. For example, some of you know that BTG was used in 51% attacks

BTG Core Wallet v0.17.3

Announcements, Development, Press Release, Technical, Updates
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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

BTG Core Wallet v0.17.1 RC1

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We’re thrilled to announce the Release Candidate of 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 here: DOWNLOADS This release will likely become the final release (EDIT: the final release was made); it has been extensively tested,

2019 Progress Update #2

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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

BTG Transparent: a Live Balance Page for the BTG Endowment

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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

Leadership for Another Year

Announcements, Press Release, Updates
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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

Bitcoin Gold is on KeepKey!

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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