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Title: [2017-11-13] Bitcoin Gold mining now available
Post by: fanatseal2 on November 13, 2017, 09:01:38 AM
The development team of Bitcoin Gold has made several steps towards full work of Bitcoin Gold. Their actions today: they have released the software necessary for mining this cryptocurrency and published the source code on GitHub, which might at least partly give the skeptics who pointed at insecurity and vagueness of this currency what they want — more transparency.

As we have noted before, this hard-fork was activated at the end of October this year, and the main feature of this cryptocurrency is that the owners of ASICs and vast mining farms are somehow deliberately blocked from the mining process. The development team views this measure as a way to make mining decentralized and...Read more (https://bitnewstoday.com/news/altcoin/bitcoin-gold-mining-now-available/)


Title: Re: [2017-11-13] Bitcoin Gold mining now available
Post by: Granxis on November 13, 2017, 10:11:48 AM
The reason Bitcoin Gold competes with Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash is that prices will change too much, Bitcoin prices are now around $ 5,000 these days. Can it also be mining the Bitcoin Cash with processor?


Title: Re: [2017-11-13] Bitcoin Gold mining now available
Post by: xPPx on November 13, 2017, 04:48:46 PM
Is BTG even profitable with a consumer grade laptop?


Title: Re: [2017-11-13] Bitcoin Gold mining now available
Post by: Marucya on November 13, 2017, 05:56:37 PM
Interesting innovations from developers bitcoin gold. The blocking of large mining farms in order to be run by small entrepreneurs was a huge step towards the actual decentralization of bitcoins. Perhaps this and other innovations will interest the community and this coin will be quite promising.