A decentralized way to prevent double-spends from 51% attacks. Originally posted here alongside draft whitepaper with full details. A brief overview of CCBN: What is Notarization, and how does it work? BTG blocks are Notarized to well-known public blockchains which serve as our “Notarychains.” Notarizations contain complete BTG block headers with the solution hashes (so they cannot be easily faked.)

We’re thrilled to announce the Release Candidate of BTG Core wallet v0.17.1 This major update to our Full Node wallet includes substantial new features for BTG and numerous bug fixes. You can download the new Release Candidate here. This release will likely become the final release; it has been extensively tested, but remember this is still a Release Candidate and there may…

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. We observed our One Year Anniversary on November 12th with a refreshed website. …

Aug 10, 2018 | Development, Technical, Updates Since the day they were first mined, the Endowment’s wallets have been public on the BTG blockchain, but rumors and misinformation persist. This post explains the Endowment mining process in detail and lists all of the wallets. In 2017, the Bitcoin Gold project…

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 safely report an issue to us, and if they follow the rules…

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 Daemon) from Lightning Labs. …

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 requirements to pre-fork levels. Now delivering: greater safety, greater stability, and renewed ASIC resistance It has been a long, hard couple of weeks, but we made it!

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 compatible with the recently Upgraded Bitcoin Gold Network. What is ElectrumG? …

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 software and patches was remotely hacked using zero-day exploits. This was a sophisticated and targeted…