BITCOIN GOLD BLOG

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A Response to the ASIC Threat

A Response to the ASIC Threat

This week, we learned that the dominant specialty crypto mining hardware maker (Bitmain) has released an “ASIC” miner for Equihash, which means it would be able to mine BTG if we were to allow that to happen. We will not allow that to happen. ASIC-resistance is...

The Bitcoin Gold Insight Explorer

The Bitcoin Gold Insight Explorer

Announcing our new, Blockchain Explorer at https://explorer.bitcoingold.org – more than “just another explorer,” this is a fully functional Bitcoin Gold Insight instance and web application service presenting the Insight UI and Insight API. It runs on a full Bitcoin Gold Bitcore Node and is hosted by the Bitcoin Gold Organization.

BitGo, Gold, and Bitcoin Gold

BitGo, Gold, and Bitcoin Gold

BitGo, a blockchain security company offering institutional services, has supported the use of BTG since 2017. Read a little about what they offer, and why it’s important that services like BitGo support Bitcoin Gold.

Vulnerable Core Wallet Update

Vulnerable Core Wallet Update

It’s time to give a status update on the Suspicious File / Vulnerable Wallet incident, which we first announced as a critical warning in November of 2017, with a later update on December 17th. We’ll provide a brief summary in a moment, but here’s the current status:...

Roadmap 2018

Roadmap 2018

Seeing how far we've come, it's easy to forget that just a few days ago, we enjoyed the two-month anniversary of our Launch on November 12th, 2017. Since then, the Bitcoin Gold (BTG) coin has been listed in 46 markets on 26 exchanges and is supported by the top...

ShapeShift Supports Bitcoin Gold

ShapeShift Supports Bitcoin Gold

We’re happy to share that ShapeShift is providing instant exchange services into and out of Bitcoin Gold! Full BTG functionality is live and available to anyone using ShapeShift, including merchants (like Overstock), business service providers (like BitGo), wallets...

Bitcoin Gold Wallet v0.15.0.2 Release

Bitcoin Gold Wallet v0.15.0.2 Release

We’re happy to announce the release of the latest Bitcoin Gold Wallet!

Gitian build system, support for ARM servers, macOS, Raspberry-Pi, config file changes, UI improvements, build script & code cleanup, -bootstrap change…