by Edward Iskra | Aug 10, 2018 | Development, Technical, Updates
UPDATE: we’ve added an external live balance site, as described in this post. BTG Endowment TransparencyLive Source Code: https://github.com/h4x3rotab/btg-transparent About the Bitcoin Gold Endowment Since the day they were first mined, the Endowment’s...
by Edward Iskra | Jul 17, 2018 | Development, Technical, Updates
Responsible Disclosure 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...
by Trixel | Jun 19, 2018 | Announcements, Technical, Updates
Mandatory Network Upgrade Bitcoin Gold is in the process of a mandatory Network Upgrade. Executing this upgrade requires a hard fork, but we anticipate a smooth upgrade with no chain splits (and no new coins created.) We have successfully Upgraded the Testnet via hard...
by Edward Iskra | Jun 12, 2018 | Development, Technical, Updates
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>,...
by Edward Iskra | Dec 11, 2017 | Development, Technical, Updates
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...
by CryptoDJ | Nov 5, 2017 | Development, Technical
Hello everyone! We take the opportunity of this update to inform you of the latest news of BTG network tests and to invite all of the miners that are planning to participate in this project to test their machines in the Bitcoin Gold test blockchain. The Bitcoin Gold...