The Bitcoin Gold blockchain suffered a second 51% attack in two years, leading to $70,000 worth of BTG being double spent.
Bitcoin Gold News
Bitcoin Gold (BTG) is a new kind of cryptocurrency that came about as a result of a Bitcoin hard fork and is aimed to be more decentralized than Bitcoin. BTG was founded in 2017 by Jack Liao, who was CEO of the mining software company Lightning ASIC, headquartered in Hong Kong. BTG uses the same PoW consensus algorithm as BTC does, so the main difference between them is the use of Equilash hash algorithm instead of SHA 256 in order to prevent Bitcoin Gold mining unless it is done with ASIC equipment. Bitcoin Gold’s price also depends on buyers’ interest and, despite the fact that many BTC holders have exchanged their crypto money for BTG when it first appeared, Bitcoin Gold’s future is still unknown, as currently it is only ranked 20th by market cap.
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by Helen Partz
California-based crypto wallet service Abra will restrict U.S. users from holding EOS and other altcoins in August.
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The Bittrex exchange will delist BTG by Sept. 14.
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by Helen Partz
Bittrex will delist Bitcoin Gold by September 14, following an $18 million double-spending hack of BTG in May.
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by Helen Partz
Argo Blockchain, which enables users to mine crypto from home, is reportedly the first crypto-related company to be listed on the LSE.
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Forking of Bitcoin’s original chain could become quite the trend in the coming year
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Bitcoin’s wild ride in 2017 included a number of notable hard forks from the original Blockchain.
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Ronnie Moas, quite happily, keeps changing his mind on where Bitcoin will be in the new year.
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by Jon Buck
Bitcoin is a bubble that will pop because of oversupply, says one analyst.
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Black Friday offers hobby miners a chance to buy high-end GPUs.
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Diversification is key in the tug-of-war between BTC and BTH, says Ronnie Moas. So hedge your bets.
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