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 Edward Iskra | Jul 13, 2018 | Updates
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...
by Edward Iskra | Jul 8, 2018 | Announcements, Updates
Block 536200 was mined Jul 3, 2018 at 9:59:26 PM UTC Unlocked: New PoW, Equihash-BTG Unlocked: New DAA, LWMA The Network Upgrade was a success, the blockchain is stable, and all partners can resume regular activities – including returning confirmation...
by Edward Iskra | Jun 23, 2018 | Updates
BITCOINGOLD.ORG is online and all systems are green. Some of our services (accessed through the btgofficial.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...
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>,...
