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Title: [2017-10-02] A Closer Look at the Activity Involved With the Bitcoin Gold Fork
Post by: bbc.reporter on October 02, 2017, 01:37:46 AM
Posting this news to make everyone aware that there will be another hardfork called Bitcoin Gold on October 25. It will implement a proof of work change to Equihash, the same algorithm that is used by Zcash and BTG can be mined by using your video cards.

Like Segwit2x, it will not have replay protection.

I do not know what to say about this but I reckon the civil war has begun. Keep your bitcoins safe.

https://news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Kuhn-257x300.jpg

There’s been a lot of quarreling happening in the bitcoin space between Core software supporters and Segwit2x proponents. Because Segwit2x developers and miners plan to raise the block size to 2MB, a group of Core supporters started a movement called “NO2x.” The NO2x group does whatever it can to persuade people to join their fight against Segwit2x, and a few cryptocurrency luminaries are also backing the movement. One member of the NO2x movement, Robert Kuhne, appears to be one of the leaders of the Bitcoin Gold team. Kuhne uses the handle “rbtkhn” in the Slack channel and answers a lot of questions asked by visitors and the crypto-media. Kuhne’s official Twitter page where he calls himself “[NO2x],” also advertises the website btcgpu.org directly under his name proudly displaying that he’s involved with the project.

Read the full article https://news.bitcoin.com/a-closer-look-at-the-suspicious-activity-involved-with-the-bitcoin-gold-fork/