BTG

Willing_Coach_8283

All Bitcoin forks are pumping real hard: BCH, BSC, BTG

transatoshi_mw

Wanna see a fucked up chart? Check out Bitcoin Gold [BTG]. Apparently the founder who left hijacked the domain last year and caused de-listings that drove it from $50 to $0.38.

Upper-Development-36

Yes, I was thinking same thing too! I was expecting to read a 12 word phrase somewhere in his story, trying to lead people to a honeypot scam. I was heavy into crypto in 2016 and 2017, I did the whole ICO thing in 2017 using Ethereum, and I was transferring around about 6 BTC here and there trying to make 6 figures. If I had just left it alone and waited a few years, it would have been life changing today. I always wish I could find an old wallet with BTC in it that I forgot about. The only thing that came close was I had an account on freebtc.me, which is also a free bitcoin faucet, and I recently went back to it just last year, the password was saved on my browser and there were two links in my account that I didn't notice for many weeks that said "Redeem Bitcoin Cash" and "Redeem Bitcoin Gold". At first, I thought they were links to transfer those types of bitcoin into my account to bet on sports or the other games. Turns out they were from when Bitcoin forked in 2017 into BCH and BTG. The Bitcoin I had in my account was eligible for the forked coins, and the site actually gave them to everyone that had a bitcoin balance. I was shocked! I only wish it was more lol. I probably transferred out most of my balance before I stopped using the site for a bunch of years. It was still a happy find though! A few hundred bucks is always welcome.

Safe-Insurance-632

No BTG não aparece essa opção. Não achei. Você compra a termo ou faz um emprestimo colaterizado? Eu havia entendido que você fazia um emprestimo, recebia os Reais e então comprava M2ST34.

Safe-Insurance-632

Eu preciso fazer isso. Opero pelo BTG e eles não me dão essa opção. Consegue me passar o contato do seu agente autonomo na XP?

pop-1988

> double spends, censorship or other attack vectors Double spending may be possible, but the history of 51% incidents demonstrates that it only causes theft in altcoin trades. The exchange didn't wait sufficient confirmations before allowing the bought coins to be withdrawn. Since the second BTG attack, exchanges have become more cautious about waiting more confirmations Censorship isn't a risk, because a 51% hash majority is too expensive to run forever. Censored transactions are confirmed when the attack ends > As the block rewards get lower every halving, the profitability of mining goes down The global mining earnings go down. The hashrate follows the earnings down. Profit per hash is maintained > more likely that such an attack will happen You have not explained any connection between such an attack and your fear of a decrease in market cap

SippieCup

I can name quite a few actually. * Ethereum Classic has 2 attacks. January 2019 with 1.,1 million USD in double spend, and August 2020 where more than 4000 blocks were rewritten. The August 2020 attacks caused most exchanges to stop support for ETC. * Bitcoin Gold (BTG) was 51% attacked in may 2018 and had a double spend 18 Million. * Vertcoin had a successful double spend of $100,000 in December 2018 via 51% attack * GRIN currently has a single miner controlling > 50% of the network since 2020, causing a loss in value of 99.58% and dropping from most crypto exchanges in 2021. Going into why decentralizing the US Government's Ledger would be a bad idea: 1) There is no miner benefit to supporting this ledger. ETH/BTC have miner rewards that ensure there is enough compute to resist hostile attacked. Unless you want to also have the US government needlessly spend money rewarding people for protecting their ledger, there is no incentive for anyone to run a node to contribute to the stability of the network. 2) There is a much greater incentive to attack a blockchain that runs the entire US government, and therefore economy. This would cause an absolute havoc and potential destabilization of the US Government. 3) In comparison, to 51% Bitcoin, it would cost you a lot of money, and the final end result would be that bitcoin would be dead - and you would have lost a lot of money to do it. You would be much better off supporting bitcoin with that money than attacking it. Thus, there is no clear incentive for anyone to try an 51% attack a sufficiently large enough network that rewards miners. 4) based on current bitcoin hash rates & mining hardware cost, it would only take about $10 billion to execute a bitcoin 51% attack. There is no way that the US government could incentivize enough nodes to run it's network to protect it at even that level. Bitcoin is protected more so by the fact that there isn't a good incentive to spend $10B kill it than by the ability to do so. It would be rather trivial for a company like OpenAI to divert their compute to successfully attack BTC, and even more trivial for a rival state to do so. The incentive for killing the US Treasury blockchain would be the destabilization of its entire economy.

jozi-k

Yep, e.g. BTG

nowonmai

Couple of years back I checked an old (from 2017) [blockchain.com](http://blockchain.com) account that I had used to double up on the BTG and BCC forks. Still had 0.5 BTC

orbital_lemon

You are not going to 51% bitcoin buying asics from eBay for retail prices. There are only so many chips for sale at any given time, only so much capacity to make more, and unlike with many proof of stake chains with dominant staking pools (hello, Lido) there is no one entity from whom a sufficient quantity of machines could be seized or otherwise sourced to make this easy. The cost of actually performing this attack is considerably higher than you are suggesting, it could *never* be done in secret, and you aren’t even attempting to explain how this attacker would power such an arsenal. Just to start, you would need to buy tons of land in many distant locations as there is a limited amount of electricity available in each location. (*Cheap* electricity? Even more so. Mining is global for a reason.) There are many other counter arguments, but these are the easy ones. Investors should understand it is not impossible for bitcoin to be attacked, but they should also know it is *nowhere near* as cheap as $15B and that any hardware used in such a catastrophic action would likely be worth pennies on the dollar afterward to the attacker. (This additional loss is one argument in favor of embracing asic mining.) Yes, theoretically, someone with enough resources could attempt to burn down the network. But can they do so profitably? It is not the same proposition as renting a 51% share of BTG or whatever on Nicehash to rob an exchange or collect on a short position. The case for a tail emission is stronger, but not a slam dunk and certainly not out of the realm of possibility for bitcoin to adopt if it does prove to be necessary someday. The chain has suffered contentious forks before and the winning side has historically only become stronger for it. Andreas Antonopoulos, the author of one of the works you cite, has had plenty to say about this attack over the years. I encourage you to check out more of his commentary.

PreventableMan

Sure, it will become more valuable, but only for those extremely few percentage of people that care. People won't charge BTG though. BTC is not reasonable as a currency. Let alone a quick or cheap one. (Let the layer2 Muppets come for this comment) Most dont. And don't let Reddit fool you. It's an echochamber. It's also a social media that negates primary, while written in a browser or a phone that negates privacy.

nowonmai

How is blockchain.com a scam? I used it a few times for forks like BCC and BTG. In 2020 I thought I'd check it and found 0.5BTC in there.

pop-1988

BTG was launched as GPU-only. Bitmain announced their BTG ASICs in advance. The BTG community warned Bitmain they would change the algorithm. Bitmain made the ASICs anyway. Someone commissioned some Bitmain ASICs on the network before they were available to retail customers, dominating the network. Nobody had any sympathy for the ASIC miners when their devices became obsolete The XMR story is slightly different, but there are XMR people here who can explain it better

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Brazil's securities regulator has approved a Solana-based ETF managed by Hashdex and BTG Pactual. This ETF, named the “Hashdex Nasdaq Solana Index Fund,” is currently in its pre-operational phase, awaiting final setup before becoming available to investors. Hashdex, with over $962 million in assets, has previously launched ETFs linked to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the Nasdaq Crypto Index. This approval marks a growing interest in diversified crypto investments in Brazil, contrasting with the US's cautious stance on similar crypto ETFs. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Rory_Russell

Ah, I remember making a tidy sum from BTG when it popped up 😄 Good old days.

wonkafront

lol, only place I could carry my BTG, now I have it in an android wallet on an old phone I never got rid of…. It’s only 10 bucks, but still, I’m just gonna give it away, so I don’t have to keep and android phone around for my sad $10 worth of BTG

wonkafront

Anyone here have BTG

StrawGreeter

Why stop there? Monero's PoW is superior. Why not BTG, still mined on GPU? DOGE is overdue for a fall back to it's pre-wsb-pump price, $0.003, or lower considering how much higher the supply is now

Appropriate_Yak_4438

Do you not know what the point of the miners is? Why they are being paid an amount of bitcoin for the job they do? You should check out ETC or BTG and maybe you'll get why it would be a terrible idea.

jaxsantiago

new to crypto.. maybe he bought BTG not BTC 🤣

Deminero30

Check if the address has fork coins. BTC had a lot of forks back in the day and a couple are still worth something; BCH, BTG and BCD. You can copy the address that had BTC before you moved them out and paste it here findmycoins. ninja. It’ll tell you if they had fork coins or not.

gastrognom

Wasn't BTG a "true fork"?

technewzguy

I bought bitcoin from Coinbase somewhere around 2012. When the price of bitcoin hit $46k for the first time I transferred it out of bitcoin to a hardware wallet. I never redeemed any bitcoin gold BTG. Do I have bitcoin gold? Does Coinbase have my bitcoin gold? Is it too late to get bitcoin gold? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

SomeIdeasTooTalk

Yea, BCH is a con-job at this stage. BTG is as well. If people are looking for a PoW digital cash with integrity and relatively wide acceptance the only real option is Litecoin. No pre-mine, founder has sold their initial bag, and can be used already a surprising number of places online.

igadjeed

> Why do you think they would be transient? Because of electricity costs? They're transient because PoW is a guessing contest. A 51% hash rate can only win 51% of blocks if it's competing in real time against the regular hash rate. Satoshi's declining probability calculations demonstrate this A successful 51% attack can create an arbitrarily long chain tip if it mines secretly and in parallel with the regular hashes, limited only by the reliability of its hash power and the cost. But the benefit can not be acquired until the attacker's chain tip is released to the main network The BTG attacks were 2-hours-long chain tips, long enough to withdraw Bitcoin from Binance at the same time as double-spending the BTG deposit sent to Binance Once the attacker's blocks are on the main chain, the odds of extending the chain fall to 51%. Another miner is going to win the next block Nothing stops the attacker doing the same 2-hour chain tip attack two days in a row. That happened https://gist.github.com/metalicjames/71321570a105940529e709651d0a9765 The attack is profitable because the exchange's wait time after BTG confirmation was shorter than 2 hours. The exchange fixes this, and the attack becomes not-viable

igadjeed

A 51% attack is not an attack on the coin. It is an attack on a fraud victim, usually a cryptocurrency exchange, by double spending. The motive is the fraud profit. Price markets are not predictable. Shorting would not guarantee profit > couldn't the users fork off with a new protocol that makes the bad actor's mining equipment obsolete Imagine making $10B of Bitcoin ASICs obsolete overnight Anyway, it's not practical. A PoW chain has a decentralized node network. Updating consensus rules is only possible with near-100% consent from node operators. That would take months That's why BTG was attacked the first time. It was launched as GPU-only mining. Bitmain announced they were making an ASIC. BTG developers announced they were changing the algorithm to make Bitmain's ASIC obsolete. But that took months. Before BTG had adopted the new algorithm, some number of Bitmain ASICs (before they were available to purchase) 51% attacked BTG The second BTG attack was possible because the algorithm was GPU-only. The attackers rented hashes on NiceHash, made a 2-hour-long alternative chain tip in secret, and released their chain tip to the network. It was longer, so it is the valid chain. An exchange lost millions, for an attack which cost a few thousand for NiceHash-brokered GPU power > Similar to how monero's protocol changed That took months too. Monero is changing its mining algorithm again, some time late in 2024. Monero's algorithm is successful at being CPU-only. So instead of making ASICs, Bitmain built a package of RISC-V CPUs into a box which which is cheaper, cooler and consumes less power than the Ryzen CPUs it's competing against > bad actors From the viewpoint of a node, they're providing blocks for the longest chain. Satoshi's PoW consensus was specifically designed not to judge bad vs good, only to follow the longest chain The assumption in many of these discussions is that the "bad guys" are instantly identifiable and the software can be instantly forked, or the blockchain can be instantly rolled back A decentralized system isn't like a bank which accidentally replayed the same tape of transactions overnight. A decentralized network runs autonomously, hands-off. The node operators are not available to jump out of bed and rush to install an urgent update at a moment's notice. Each node is independent. No central control is possible. There is no boss node. The developers do not tell the node operators when to update

anonymouscitizen2

I need to take a step back? Give me one example of a successful (profitable) 51% attack that did not involve reorging the chain. Here are a few that went exactly as I described. BTG Jan 2020, Vertcoin Dec 2019, EXP jul 2019, LCC 2019. I don’t know why I am even discussing with you anymore since, you are wrong about this. You cannot 51% attack Bitcoin in hours with these pools, you simply cannot. Its not even a debate. 51% attack reorgs: https://gist.github.com/metalicjames/71321570a105940529e709651d0a9765 https://gist.github.com/metalicjames/f2acdb9ef448ec5298173b36c7c54133 https://gist.github.com/metalicjames/01222049f95f85df8c0eb253de54848b https://gist.github.com/metalicjames/82a49f8afa87334f929881e55ad4ffd7

xzcca

1. Get your BTC off that wallet 2. Use the same key in the forks (CH, BTG,.. whatever) 3. Change them to BTC 4. profit

73-80

Try BTH, ETC, BSV or BTG. all cheap right now and went to high hundreds in last bull rally!! got $100 to $300 in all of these plus $5000 spread out between other coins that has to make big profits this bull rally coming! gonna be a fun rally this time!!

igadjeed

The point is to cut out the middle man because the middleman adopted the role of gatekeeper, regulating what people are allowed to buy or to sell - political censorship and moral censorship Bitcoin does this Litecoin also does this, slightly differently As the dominant, Bitcoin usage (mostly misuse) caused it to bump up against its daily volume limit Litecoin is a useful alternative, while Bitcoin is overloaded Monero is as useful as Bitcoin, with extra privacy BCash is an opportunist coin minting. By inheriting Bitcoin's history, it created value from nothing, fraudulently. BTG, BSV and about 40 others are similarly fraudulent, for inheriting existing coin history ETH is a mistake. A clever person noted that Bitcoin's scripting design does not do loops (more correct, does not do backward jumps). Naively, clever person thinks this is a deficiency. ETH is the sad result Everything else is an extension of the parasitic speculator market which adopted Bitcoin in about 2011. Finding a market which offers scam trading equivalent to the old Belfort penny stock pump-and-dump markets, the penny stock scammers made a speculative market from Bitcoin. Then they extended it to new coins - either blockchains, or ETH instant tokens > I see AI as the future Isn't faith belief so quaint

filthy-peon

Fees on BTG are not low. Bailouts can still happen just not with freshly pronted btc. However I do agree on the point of having the possibility to not use a custodian. That is nice and can prevent the state from overreaching. Can also prevent sanctions öile the USA is increasingly using. Amd as Insaid yes you also have a limited supply woth bitcoin. But this will jurt economies due to deflation. There are some advantages but its really not lile showomg up with a musket to a swordfight! More like showing up with a fine wine to a cheap party 😅

Qwahzi

A couple of points - you're assuming that there are no rewards or consequences, but both of those assumptions are wrong: 1. Nano has incentives for good behavior - the network itself is the incentive (0 fee, permission-less, money). Just like HTTP, SMTP, TCP/IP, and even Bitcoin full nodes, none of which pay people fees at the protocol-level. The largest entities are the least likely to attack, since they make or save money from using the network 2. Nano uses ORV, which is very different from PoS, with different game theory (more details [here](https://docs.nano.org/protocol-design/orv-consensus/#open-representative-voting-orv-vs-proof-of-stake-pos)). There is no leader selection, block producers, fee rewards, or block rewards. You get no special privileges for being a consensus participant (representative), so there's no reason to do so unless you want to use the network itself. This also means that decentralization is incentivized - there's no benefit to having massive representatives, only downsides (increased attack/censorship risk), and that's why Nano keeps getting more decentralized over time (opposite of Bitcoin) 3. There ARE consequences for bad behavior in Nano. For censorship, the bad attackers can easily end up forking themselves out and losing access to wallets, users, services, etc, when the quorum thresholds and/or voting weight gets adjusted (due to the block-lattice data structure combined with block cementing). For double spend attempts, the attackers would just get forked out, also losing the wallets, users, services, etc, and destroying the value of their double spent version 4. We have seen multiple examples of old/dead PoW coins getting double spent (ETC, BTG, VTC, etc), and almost 0 examples of PoS coins getting double spent, *[even when the coin is almost dead](https://twitter.com/patrickluberus/status/1703752678839308573)* (no users/volume), **because** the game theory works* - the largest entities have the biggest incentive not to attack the network (they'd destroy the value of their holdings), AND no attacker is going to buy up the supply to attempt an attack 5. Nano is one of the [most decentralized networks](https://nanocharts.info/p/01/vote-weight-distribution) already, and keeps getting more decentralized with time, especially compared to [Bitcoin](https://btc.com/stats/pool)

18476

Eh, nobody remember Bitcoin Gold or Bitcoin Diamond. Both hardforks of BTC. BTG (ranked 122) price $12.49 and BCD(ranked 730) price ¢.05545 I thought it was pretty cool getting those free then selling them as fast as possible lol.

igadjeed

Th best thing about Bitcoin Gold is the developer choosing an ASIC-proof mining hash algorithm, with the slogan, "one GPU one vote" Bitmain announced plans for a BTG ASIC. The developer made counter-plans for a different algorithm. Someone (definitely not Bitmain) had exclusive access to the first batch of Bitmain BTG ASICs, used them to 51% attack BTG, with double-spending fraud BTG changed the algorithm - better late than never. This wiped out the value of all the BTG ASICs Then BTG was 51% attacked again, by thieves renting GPU hashes on NiceHash https://gist.github.com/metalicjames/71321570a105940529e709651d0a9765

simplicity92

To learn BTC especially, i feel the need is to learn crypto as a whole instead of just the king. Anyway i already got headache with just math, imagine now you gotta learn about BTC. I can also already give the answer. Satoshi nakamoto (real identity unknown) 21million btc ever Halving every 4 years Decentralized (no one owned btc as a company or director) Have 2 hardforks. BCH and BTG Last BTC to be mine will be in year 2140. The only country with BTC as legal tender is El Salvador First ever commercial transaction of BTC is to buy pizza.

BTCMinerBoss

Then, remember when Bitcoin forked to Bitcoin Gold and Coinbase kept all the BTG that should have been provided to their customers and a California judge decided "too bad for you crypto nerds, you get nothing". Yeah I remember....

RogerWilco357

I love BTG. Sold it at the fork and made a couple more G in BTC. How can I hate something that got me more BTC?

Dazzling_Marzipan474

BTG Bitcoin Gold. Just look at the all time graph. It couldn't be worse. It's fading into the abyss. It's 108th by market cap at $281M.

CardanoCrusader

How many times has Bitcoin already been forked, and with a lot less liquidity at stake? The following is a list of notable hard forks splitting bitcoin by date and/or block: * Bitcoin Cash: Forked at block 478558, 1 August 2017, for each bitcoin (BTC), an owner got 1 Bitcoin Cash (BCH) * Bitcoin SV: Forked at block 556766, 15 November 2018, for each Bitcoin Cash (BCH), an owner got 1 Bitcoin SV (BSV). * eCash: Forked at block 661648, 15 November 2020, for each Bitcoin Cash (BCH), an owner got 1,000,000 eCash (XEC). * Bitcoin Gold: Forked at block 491407, 24 October 2017, for each bitcoin (BTC), an owner got 1 Bitcoin Gold (BTG) *

PotentialJourney

You could try mining BTG which is a fork of BTC that uses GPUs to mine instead of ASICs. It has the same number of total coins (21M) and is also set to do a block halving early next year.

Skank_cunt_42

Anyone remember Bitcoin Gold (BTG)? When it forked from BTC, it had a conversion rate of 1 BTG to 0.1 BTC! However, the current price of one Bitcoin Gold is currently $16.5 according to CoinMarketCap. What happened? I see it pumps occasionally, any chance left in it or just another dead zombie coin from a past era of Crypto.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual has launched its own dollar-pegged stablecoin, BTG Dol. Eleven countries in Latin America signed an agreement to fight inflation by adopting a system that will create facilities for exporting and importing basic goods. Argentina will offer a new exchange rate to agricultural producers to liquidate their products. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

juanadov

0.5% to mint BTG. Not bad at all. But is it an actual cryptocurrency? There seems to be reference to it being usable on their crypto-asset platform. Dunno if that’s just investing instead of actually owning it.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual will launch a stablecoin priced in US dollars at a parity of one to one. The stablecoin, called BTG Dol, will be available on Mynt, the bank's crypto-asset platform, and through BTG's own investment system. BTG sees the asset as a new instrument for investors seeking to "dollarize" their portfolios. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

WorkingLime

Jokes aside there are some nice ETC miners like Jasminer and iPollo. Remember something people do it for the profit they don't care about the coin fundamentals. There is some people mining BTG

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America, has launched its first stablecoin through Mynt, the Bank's crypto platform. BTG Dol is a crypto asset, with a price backed by the US dollar and a 1 to 1 parity, which enables interacting between the traditional financial system and the new digital economy. The stablecoin offers its holders the opportunity to 'dollarize' part of their equity in a simple, efficient and secure manner. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual will reportedly launch its own stablecoin called BTG Dol. The asset will be available on Mynt (the bank's cryptocurrency platform) and pegged to the US dollar. The stablecoin will supposedly become the 23rd token available on the platform. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual has launched its own stablecoin. The BTG Dol token is priced in U.S. dollars. The stablecoin will run on Polygon, the blockchain behind the 10th largest cryptocurrency by market cap MATIC. Stablecoins are useful for crypto traders who want to quickly enter and exit trades without using traditional currencies. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

bwoksa

As per the article ; Latin America’s biggest investment bank, Brazil-based BTG Pactual, today announced the launch of its own stablecoin. Rio de Janeiro-based BTG Pactual said in a Tuesday statement that its BTG Dol token, available for clients now, is priced in U.S. dollars. Saved you the click !!

Consistent_Many_1858

Latin America’s biggest investment bank, Brazil-based BTG Pactual, today announced the launch of its own stablecoin.  Rio de Janeiro-based BTG Pactual said in a Tuesday statement that its BTG Dol token, available for clients now, is priced in U.S. dollars. 

basvw

Bitcoin Gold..BTG wallet. I was young and inexperienced 😑

igadjeed

If there are more idle hashes available for quick reactivation than there are active hashes, a 51% attack is technically possible. This is a consequence of Bitcoin's design, a kind of inevitability. Is this a problem? If you're the victim of double-spend enabled by a 51% attack, it's a problem. There have been 51% attacks on BTG and other altcoins. Who were the victims?

crua9

Why wouldn't you just mine whatever profitable coin. Right now it's something like BTG or RVN at the time of writing this. Then use that to swap to moons?

knowbodynows

Sloppy "humor". BCH is on that drive indeed, as well as the following shitcoins: BSV, XEC, BTC, BTG, etc.

Skank_cunt_42

I remember when BTG (Bitcoin Gold) was forked, immediately following it was valued at about an 1/3 of BTC price. Now it floats around $15! XD

JFor_

I just added my wallet to cointracker and I have all these random coins such as 11000 Bitcoin gold (BTG) that I never have heard of before. I'm assuming they are fake scam coins. How can I delete these to see my actual balance?

Maxx3141

When BTC started to pump in 2017, I got curious. The last time I heard of it it "died" after all. After some research I made my first purchases of BTC, ETH and a few of the "hot alts" of that time. The hot alts were BCH, BTG and ETC... Don't judge me, it was my first time in crypto.

FlyingDutchmantoMoon

That narative is just brought to you by ETH maxis. They'ld even leave out BTC if they could. But the truth is there will most likely be a future with several succesfull layer 1s with only BTG as the OG

igadjeed

> The idea of inherently ASIC resistant pow algorithms is basically dead, no matter how memory hard you make them Right, more or less. Manufacturer economics prevents ASICs being developed for shitcoins like BTG. The history there is that Bitmain announced they were planning an ASIC, BTG devs announced they would change the hashing algorithm. But the ASIC was available (to someone, not the retail market) before the algorithm was changed, and the operator of those pre-market ASICs 51% attacked BTG. BTG changed the algorithm. Bitmain did not make an ASIC. Nor did any manufacturer Also, there is more to innovation than making a hashing algorithm memory hungry. Monero's mining hash is ASIC resistant (and GPU resistant) by requiring a round of hashing to use dozens of different CPU instructions. That's ASIC resistant because an ASIC which supported all CPU instructions would be a CPU. This contradiction means that Monero is CPU mined and will be forever

crua9

>whats the point of bitcoin gold As mention, it is because you need to use special hardware to mine BTC while BTG is limited to GPU mining. That's pretty much it. Personally, I rarely mine BTG unless if I need quick cash. Like IMO this isn't a long term hold. The mining part of it is already covered by a number of other coins.

RogerWilco357

But that wasn't my argument, I only stated my opinion that I'd rather use BTG.

P_e_a_s_h_o_o_t_e_r

>But there are actually multiple forks a week I probably won't have heard of any of them, so their value is probably very small. These new fork are probably worth even much less than the low valued BTG.

P_e_a_s_h_o_o_t_e_r

If you had 1 BTC before the fork you'd now have 1 BTC + 1 BTG. But the 1 BTG is worth 0.00088 BTC. So the total value is 1.00088 BTC.

Ghost_Lagoon

ETH/BTG is my favorite chart rn

Elrondarius

ZEC,DGB,BTG but mainly of course BTC.

Maxx3141

In my first week of crypto I bought some BTG - I still have it, but even Binance has delisted it, so looks like I will keep it forever.

tweephiz

https://forkdrop.io/ has comprehensive details of the forks, surprised to see there are over 100! BCH BSV BTG probably the only ones with any reasonable markets.

ioWxss6_bot

Good observation. I tried pulling all the comments with BTG in it. While doing so realized that no one is actually mentioning BTG. In fact the bot counted 'gold' mentions towards BTG. [Fixed it](https://github.com/RaidasGrisk/reddit-to-db/blob/master/other_ops/topics.py#L33). Thanks for pointing this out! 🙏

zheezhee

What on earthis BTG?

iamthinksnow

Three will probably be a way to split your coins from Ledger at some point, similar to the methods used back in the day with BTC & BCH & BTG...etc.

KryptoUkko

Oh there’s BTG, you’re right and yeah no.

WorkingLime

I don't see too much future for BTG

The-Francois8

Bitcoin cash (BCH), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), and Bitcoin SV (BSV) are all sitting on the porch, screaming nonsense about being the real bitcoin, and telling the altcoin kids to get off of their lawn.

Nada_Lives

The BTG Pactual Head of Digital Assets Andre Portilho does not speak for me. Neither does "We all in the crypto community". What does this have to do with Bitcoin?

SakuraNinja12

NFT Coin? And I haven't seen BTG mentioned in ages. If anything, I thought BTG was dead lol

certfied_dumbass

*BTG is like Bitcoin, but better, because it is shiny.* ​ lmao almost missed the comdedy tag

CymandeTV

So DOGEG is the next BTG?

WorkingLime

BTG is 83

Uncomfortable_Newt_

Gotta be something todo with that BTG drop tho 160 to 29 a big one

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; BTG Pactual has launched Mynt, a new exchange for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in Brazil focusing on education in the ecosystem. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

Conscious-Mix-3282

BTG pactual are crooks.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; BTG Pactual has launched Mynt, a new exchange for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in Brazil focusing on education in the ecosystem. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

Waddamagonnadooo

Show me where I said private smart contracts are impossible? I literally stated a fact that Ethereum has a multi-billion $ worth of defi ecosystem (which makes it a target for regulators) while Monero literally has none, I’m sorry if that fact upset you. You also provided zero proof that POW is better than POS besides “trust me bro, it’s harder” while ignoring what I’ve said that the richer get richer under a POW scheme as well. BTC mining is centralized as shit with ASICs. ETC/BTG have been 51% attacked multiple times. This isn’t exactly the shining beacon of security you’re claiming it to be. Until Ethereum completes the merge and we’ve had a few years of data showing whether or not POS is viable for a large scale cryptocurrency, this is literally all just handwaving speculation.

WorkingLime

I agree with you but I did a technical and not biased analysis. I took the listed coins in CMC that are GPU minable and listed the six first. People blame about BTG, like it is my fault it is in the 82 position of the ranking and can be GPU minable.

WorkingLime

Mining BTG with a RTX3070 gives you 8 cents (USD) daily after electricity cost, that is by definition profitable. Of course doing it won't make sense because mining instead ETH would give you 20 times more USD, around 1.5 USD

Maxx3141

This is not how mining works and simply not true. Every miner mines in a profit, otherwise he could just shut off and buy the coin instead (getting more). With "being profitable" I mean being among the most profitable coins. BTG is just mined by some chinese miner who invented it and probably has access to (almost) free electricity.

notarealguy2020

Why would BTG pump?

DioNySus002

Should invent in ETC and BTG ofc.

Invest07723

No Comedy Flair and OP said not a joke so I am buying BTG. Should I sell my ETH or my BTC so I have BTG money?

Tajo990

I stopped reading after ETC and BTG

Maxx3141

Someone promoting BTG - this must be comedy.

Ghost_Lagoon

Sold part of my ETH for BTG, really feels like it has risen way too fast lol

Mat9691

What is BTG, i heard they are also some sort of the gold is well.

btrvc

There is great volume that we are getting at the moment in this sub, look like everyone is loving the current pump we are getting from the market. But the real question will be for how long we are going to hold on that pump now? I am really surprised to see the BTG in that list is well.

CryptoLoser-XXL

I don't know a thing about ETC, so I am not going to say it's as dumb as Dogeshit. But personally I would not burn my hands on projects like ETC, BSV, BCH & BTG.

463632120

I will take my chances in the BTG over the luna any day.

Prized-Man

Beats me, lol. I have only seen BTG being mentioned on that list I don't remember seeing it mentioned anywhere else....

Wilder54321

True but every time a new 3AC or platform going bankrupt, Luna is always mentioned. Who even mentions BTG and why lol?

Prized-Man

Do Kwon is old news now 😂 + BTG is still better than Luna, lol

Wilder54321

To be fair, I understand why Luna there while it’s still some what fresh in our minds. Why is BTG on the list though?