BITCOIN GOLD BLOG
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Leadership for Another Year
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...
Bitcoin Gold is on KeepKey!
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...
Endowment Wallet Mining Process and Complete List
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 wallets...
Bitcoin DLL Vulnerability, Fixed in Bitcoin Gold
We made a fix for a DLL vulnerability that affects BTC and all coins that use Bitcoin’s installer methods. We used the fix in our recent Network Upgrade and shared it for the rest of the community’s benefit.
Lightning Network Technical Preview
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 Network...
ElectrumG – Release 3.2.1
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...
A Successful Network Upgrade
The BTG network successfully upgraded PoW and DAA algorithms via hardfork in early July, improving stability, reducing attack vectors, and booting ASIC miners.
bitcoingold.org is Back Online
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...
Network Upgrade: Testnet Today, Mainnet Next
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...
Equihash-BTG: Our New PoW Algorithm
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>,...
A Brief Update on the Pending Upgrade
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...
Responding to Attacks
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...
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