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I honestly don't know much about this coin. I'll just try to honestly represent what is available elsewhere on this coin.

People are stating to inject this into discussions on Bitcoin Cash. This is a thread where such folk can be sent for more meaningful discussion on BitcoinGPU.

Initial probe (?): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2046790.0

Website: http://btcgpu.org/

The website indicates that BitcoinGPU is to be forked from Bitcoin Genesis at the same block height that Bitcoin Cash forked (478558). I can not yet find evidence of a single mined block. I may be missing it. Please respond below if you detect a BitcoinGPU block at height 478559 or higher.

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From downthread:
The main website has now been updated http://btcgpu.org/ and the fork block has been set at #491407
(not vetted)
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Website snapshot:

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[About UAHF] [Source Code] [View Specs] [Download Binaries]

<<logo>>

An implementation of Bitcoin peer-to-peer electronic GOLD.
Learn about Bitcoin GOLD

What is Bitcoin GPU?
Bitcoin GPU is a full node implementation of the Bitcoin protocol.
GPU mining can protect Bitcoin Key value: Decentralize.

ROADMAP
Once Bitcoin ABC forked Bitcoin, BTCGPU will be activated at the same time.
It will be 1M+SW .
when the block size is full again, will en-crease  the block size to 2M，4M...
When mining?
When code development is done, starts to mining.
The developer is working hard on it.
It will support original smart contract.
If needed, hard fork again to support original smart contract.
not side chain smart contract.

ICO
BTCGPU will create 16000 blocks after forked from No 478558th Blcock.
every block 12.5 BTG.
it will be sold to ico investor.
1BTC=10BTG.
this ICO will help BTG chain the longest Bitcoin blockchain.
all rised BTC will used to hire developors, advertisement, etc.

ROBUST
A fork of the stable Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin GPU aims to build on this base with improved code quality. Development follows a process of continuous integration, based on industry best-practices.

SCALABLE
Bitcoin GPU implements the UAHF (User Activated Hard Fork) proposal to accept GPU mining. Miners can choose the size of the blocks they want to mine, with a default of 1 MB. It includes replay and wipeout protection.


MODERN
For too long, Bitcoin has been held back by the centralize mining industry. GPU brings Bitcoin into the modern age with an exciting technological roadmap to enable massive on-chain scaling well into the future with decentalize.

[About UAHF] [Source Code] [View Specs] [Download Binaries]
[Additional Downloads: Ubuntu Packages]

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note: all links tie right back to this very landing page.

It is an interesting enough idea, but definitely does not guarantee a great market value just because of its name - having said that though I really, really love that there are more GPU coins coming out lately, as the market on that front has been dead for quite a while and there are now tons of miners with lots of mining rigs that cannot be properly used - instead everyone ends up mining the same set of coins more or less. We crave more variation!

equihash algo (ZEC) didn't see that mentioned in your post.

Any blocks mined as of yet?

A well protected site for bitcoin trading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAukxlpwyHg Bitcoin Gold! Exclusive: Friendly fork crypto-dividend Bgold is coming soon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZklF5IsHxXg Hold Bitcoin before October 1st if you want FREE Bgold crypto-dividends! FUD, South Korea

Please stop listening to that guy. All he does is defame others and their projects and spits nonsense to unsuspecting newbies.

Actually I don't listen to him, only because he's a bit more irritating than all the others.
But
1. He's the one with the infos on the subject at hand.
2. Isn't he just a bog-standard bitcoin maximalist?
What happened, he outed the scam you're advertising? Good for him.

Best Bitcoin trading site.Hats off to BitcoinGPU for their support in generating sources of petty income.

Any more details or updates on bitcoingpu ??

I guess this is dead in the water or a fake scam?

The Bitcoin snapshot is being taken on Oct 25th. Airdrop will take place on Nov 1st.

Announced here: https://twitter.com/btcgpu/status/912122750952652800

New info from tweet above - evidently, the previous announcement of block height is no longer valid.

Do your own due diligence - I'm merely posting what I see.

Seems like just another coin, but whatever I am gonna hold Bitcoin specially for btx airdrop.

Totally agree, megashira1.
Adam "the panhandler" Meister is nothing but a shill.  




What a whore.

https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/bitcoin-gpu/


nothing else to say

Pure scam.

An old article with outdated information.

Read this one from Sep 27th: https://www.coindesk.com/first-cash-now-gold-another-bitcoin-hard-fork-way

And some clarifications from @btcgpu team:

https://twitter.com/btcgpu/status/913049347948007425

That's recent, accurate information from trusted sources.

The question that is more important is about the mining, will be a only gpu thing? people that are today mining ETH can migrate maybe, because will be the same algo

Most of the comments about bitcoin cash, most respected people in the community said it was "trash".  Well they were dead wrong and I see the same type of comments now about BitcoinGPU,  don't listen to the fudders.

BitcoinGPU I like!  Tired of bitmain asics having all the profit fun with their advance no lube technologies.  Great to see gpu mining having something decent to mine.

Those holding keep key wallets will the be able to get bitcoin gpu automatically in the hardware wallet or not supported?  

 ??? ??? ???

Another fork??

No. It's a pure scam. Premined. Not a fork.

No it is a fork. Because anyone who holds private keys on bitcoin (segwit) will have the same private keys on bitcoin 'gold' blockchain just as it was with bitcoin cash on the last fork.

Premine is different, means the coins are all created up front and held by the devs, who typically sell them with an ICO or something.

I think the bitcoin cash fork was kind of warranted. Segwit was a huge change to bitcoin which many people didnt lke so to create a fork was justified. This I don't know. Too many forks could be damaging. I don't see a great need for this fork

There were some information about ICO and I could get my head round that.
Could someone more educated in this topic tell what it takes to fork? For sure it's not mining power, because at first BCH had 0,28% hash rate of BTC.
At first Bitcoin Cash, now this. Does anyone with a brillant idea of "creating another free money" can do this? This whole fork thing looks just ridiculous.

Its a fork from the original BTC chain its no more pre mined than Bcash and guess who gets all the "premined" coins every BTC holder at a rate of 1:1 at the time of the fork

From what I can tell its actually both a fork and a premine...  :-\

However the details have since been removed from their site, originally they explained it.

Here is how I understand it. After the fork, everyone who holds BTC private keys gets their 1:1 BitcoinGPU (BTG). They are ALSO doing an ICO where they advance the blockchain manually (not sure how) 16,000 blocks, and keep the block rewards of 12.5 BTG/block = 200,000BTG.

They will be selling the ICO at 1:10 BTC:BTG.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Sounds like huge shit show to me. but you never know.

I don't think that will happen there is only supposed to be 1 week from fork to launch so there may be a few premine blocks but not many

Well I was assuming it was just a normal fork. But yeh a fork and premine with ICO thats a new twist. Or shit show.

My non expert take on it is this. Anyone (with skills to know how) could make a fork at any time just by duplicating the code, changing the name and a few other key things to prevent the two blockchains becoming entangled after the split and thats about it. Announce it and start mining it. But for the project to grow it would need people to support it, through its whole ecosystem, ie miners, devs and users. For that to happen it would need a good reason for being.

This altcoin could be genius and the very least opportunistic.  I believe Ethereum is forking on the 25th of October as well and their block reward dropping to 3 eth/ from 5.

Information is vague at best, but to me it sounds like that this gpu coin already forked when bch forked from bitcoin.  That would mean everyone same amount of gpu coin as they had bch from the airdrop. 

Before block: 478558 will be airdropped
block 478558 + 16000 will be premined for ICO?

I'm guessing at 478558 will be a migration from sha256 to a gpu friendly algo?  How many blocks beyond the 16000 ICO blocks will have been premined?

None the less, very interesting idea and excellent timing: it is probably just bitmain behind this coin just they are "presumably" bch.  I would venture a guess that gpus will viable for near future but they will have an asic that they will only accept this new gpu coin for as payment? 

Purely my opinion, all these forks of bitcoin are about obtaining more bitcoin.  I'm holding my BTC and will gladly take the airdrops.

Its not been forked yet the actual forking block has yet to be decided last I heard it was block 487427 which was due 1st Oct but this was further postponed and now will be forked on the 25th October at a yet to be defined block height with the official release on the 1st November (the same time as the 2x fork)

There was supposed to be a small premine to pay for a developer not sure whats happening with that now though but I agree it is a very interesting project and possibly has a lot of potential to steal hashrate from some of the shitcoins using a proven system thats tried and tested by core.

Ive been told that when it launches that the difficulty will start really low which is fine if its adjusting the difficulty on every block and that there will be an official mining pool so users can start mining straight away

What I rescue is that you are sincere and you say at the beginning that you do not know about this project and that for me is important, so that a user can take their precautions.

Thanks tek, I was wondering the basis of your opinion, you made me research it further than OP's copy of the bitcoingold page.  There is a lot more info there than one would think.  The face page link is informative as well as the tweeter link.  I am seriously interested in this coin now.

Does anyone have any idea of what kind of wallet is in development to receive airdrop and mine day one, let alone split from bitcoin?

Yes I follow this on twitter (https://twitter.com/btcgpu) they answer questions if asked im guessing to start off with the wallet will be a clone of the core full wallet but you should be able to use any bitcoin paper wallet to store offline as for a 3rd party light wallet etc that's hard to say I guess it will depend on if it gains any real value

I was told there would be a mining pool set up at the time of launch but further than that I have no more information but I expect things to be similar to when Bcash launched

Scam pay attention and share this information so everyone does not panic, some people believe that there will be a fork.
and some are happy to get BTG for free. Ha  ;D

waiting for 10btg/1btc in first week

Honestly I would support BTCGPU/Gold ... because I think GPU mining have a better economical returns for long term miners... and Gold always reminds me something to hold (lower liquidity, in opposition to cash/payment system). With that in mind

Why not add to the project roadmap in general the following.

~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bitcoin G (gpu-gold)

1 - Can l be used to track real gold production .. like this idea from IBM on track supply-chain
https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/supply-chain/ (https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/supply-chain/)

2 - Is it possible to fine tune the GPU mining algorithm to follow these top hardware used for deep learning ?
https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/18626/what-is-the-best-hardware-gpu-for-deep-learning (https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/18626/what-is-the-best-hardware-gpu-for-deep-learning)
 

Seems now their site is just the splash page. Will have to wait for more information to be posted again which from the looks of it won't happen before the 25th

I wonder how many will fall for this , This is pure scam , BTC with pre mine , ICO , No replay protection , It is screaming scam . Please for every one who will try to dump this coin be careful and do not do so unless you know what you are doing because you can simply lose your real BTC .

I will leave this link I came cross : https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/757l70/here_is_why_bitcoingold_is_shady_and_a_scam_you/

 :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

They claim to have replay protection built-in

That reddit post was FUD.

I'm still skeptical, but here is their official response to reddit post:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2-g_coTRnPnNlM1R2F3am9CeWc/view

how can we mine it

Also wanted to know how to mine, the project is still being developed and maintained by someone?

I asked them this on twitter a while back and was told by them they will set up a pool from day one so everyone can get started until more come online


Also I check the github repository occasionally and there is still active work being done the official repository is slightly behind the one the developer is working on and these changes get merged presumably when finished

Im still sceptical about the release dates though and expect it to be delayed although they have assured me its on schedule and won't be delayed 

What algo will it have? I heard about equhash. Am i right?

Yeah Equihash with shitton of Premine..
its a decent scam

Its equihash and yes there was originally going to be a premine but this is now cut to a minimal period there is only 1 week from fork to release developers don't work for free

The main website has now been updated http://btcgpu.org/ and the fork block has been set at #491407

Official pool website http://pool.gold/

Do you actually know how we will end up claiming it then? Will we just have to do something simple like sign a transaction? Are we looking at more of an airdrop than a fork? I wish they were clearer, the team seems to be pretty absent from the community.

here is the official thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2284289.0

It's pity that they choose equihash but not ethash :( Ethash has much less power consumption due to GPU core downvolting.

So basically another Alt coin using Equihash.

Long as it can be mined, I'm in.  ;D

They are still claiming to have replay protection, but the fork is in 3 days and there's still no code. They literally just created a bounty for it 18 hours ago, not exactly a strong indication that it's ready.

I heard rumors that they will be giving 10 btcgpu for ever 1 btc. Is that true? I heard this on various sites and videos on Youtube.

Thanks

probably a result of the scam site that's trying to get your private key, i believe it claims you'll get up to 100btg bonus at launch.

obviously anyone with a brain knows you don't give your private key to anyone

edit:

scammers twitter:

https://twitter.com/btcgpu

What has happened to the BTCGPU website I keep getting "403 Forbidden" when trying to access the website ?
Also, is there a block exploer site for Bitcoin Gold, I can't find one.

Yeah, happening to me as well, prolly they are having visitors overload.
Btw, any news about how we can GPU mine it?

Has Anyone received any yet.

It Seems like no one yet has received their BTG either and it takes about 24 hours from the time of the fork. :-\

Any Equihash miner can be used to mine Bitcoin Gold, but there are no pools, AFIK, open for mining Bitcoin Gold until 1st November.
There is info on what looks like the official Bitcoin Gold ANN page, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2284289.0

I google for it, find some videos promoting pools but still not possible to mine it. My 1070 rigs will love this equihash algo for sure <3

Note that I asked OP of that thread whether or not he/she was formally associated with the project, and that the question remains unanswered.

Network bitcoin gold develops and gets better. There was a web explorer btg https://btgexp.com/ BTCBTC 8)

so this coin mining by GPU, just like ETH need video card to mining it ,right?

Bitcoin Gold is GPU mineable, just like Ethereum. Any equihash miner will be able to mine Bitcoin Gold, such as Claymore's ZCash miner https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1670733.0 . You can do test mining at http://btcg.miningspeed.com/ to see what sort of hashrate and BTG returns you'll get.

BTG Calculator, https://www.crypto-coinz.net/crypto-calculator/

 8) hooray my solution open block https://btgexp.com/tx/38ffb62f2eee3737576f1f489aa45263498111d8001a1289a5c1b9417ed6d497 in testnet

Says NO to ICO, never,