it is NOT their website. most probably a scam website!

bitcoin gold does not yet exist. their fork is a little bit different from others such as bitcoin cash. what they did was that they took bitcoin's blockchain from start until block height 491407 and when they release their coin in the future (probably in a month from now) they will build on top of that.

link to "real" website: http://btcgpu.org/
source code on github: https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU

it doesn't matter what they are calling bitcoin cash. they can call it BCC, BCH, or potato, in the end all of them are the same thing. just remember to give them a "bitcoin cash address" and not a "bitcoin address" when you are making a withdrawal.

for that you can use any other exchange that has a bitcoin cash market: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/#markets

8000 yuan? bitcoin is currently 35,700 CNY! you think it can go that low or are you confusing CNY with USD? because 8000 yuan is about 1200 USD and that is not going to happen.

as for 8000 dollar, it may not happen this year. we already had enough rise for one year if you ask me. and with SegWit2x drama i believe everything will be put on hold and postponed to next yer. in 2018 you can see $8000 easily enough though.

the "Fact" is that bitcoin cash is no different from bitcoin in this issue. you just don't see the issue yet because nobody is using bitcoin cash.
https://bitcoincash.blockexplorer.com/blocks
a quick look at the previous blocks by BCH shows that they are all empty blocks with either 0 transaction or less than 30! and you "think" you have fixed the same issue you are making fun of. but in reality the problem exists even worst in bitcoin cash you just don't see it now.

i disagree.
what you said could have been true back in many years ago when people weren't much familiar with bitcoin and it was early days of it. by then Satoshi was bitcoin so anything wrong with Satoshi could reflect on bitcoin too. but now there is a much bigger  developers team and people realized that bitcoin is not centralized to one person or even a group of people to be "harmed" if something goes wrong with them.

the developers do the coding since they are the ones who are capable of doing it.
then the miners look at their proposals and if they like it they start showing their support by "voting". it will be a change in the version number of the blocks to show that "vote".
then if it reaches enough support the fork happens.

this is what Satoshi refereed to as 1 CPU 1 Vote IIRC.
but since in Satoshi time, a miner was also a node, things were different. now nodes are separate from miners. they do get a vote too, not as strong but still a vote. for example if a big enough part of the network  decides they don't want the blocks miners are creating (for example in case of them not voting for SegWit) they can reject their blocks and force them to accept the fork proposal.

transactions taking too long to confirm can have a lot of different reasons. the most obvious one that someone else also mentioned is the number of unconfirmed transactions which has grown a lot lately. and that is most probably your issue too.

but there also can be some issue with your transction. for example your transaction may be spending unconfirmed transaction(s) and until they are confirmed your tx will remain unconfirmed and they may take a lot of time to confirm too.


a lot of altcoins that are never used and have 99% empty blocks have low fees because there is no competition for that space.
it doesn't matter if these altcoins have 100 bytes max block or 100 giga bytes blocks, they will remain empty.

i prefer UUI (Universal USB Installer). it works for all the linux distributions out there and it is much faster. i have never encountered any issues with it either.
i find Rufus a bit complicated too.

this is a good website for these kind of stuff too: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

neither of these two are "down" slowly or fast-ly
the price is rising, whether you see it or not, is your problem. you have to look at the charts not the price alone an when you do remember to zoom out. you will see the price rising if you do that.

and the market cap, despite being absolutely meaningless, is also rising with the rise of price and mining of new coins (supply).

shitcoins have been produced for nearly as long as bitcoin existed. that never changes anything. every person who has ever looked at the altcoin market knows that perfectly well and them being created non stop for years never has anything to do with "winter coming" or not.

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next time try and find something relevant before repeating the "winter is coming" nonsense.

there are two things i don't like about it. first is the title of it which is talking about bitcoin leaving other digital coins in the dust which in my opinion is meaningless because that is nothing new! bitcoin is bar far ahead of the rest of them, and that is because of its usefulness whereas altcoins are absolutely useless!

then the notion of the forks which  the article mostly focused on. saying things like "bonus of additional coins" is generally a dangerous way of thinking which will lead to a lot of headache for a lot of weakly designed forks like bitcoin gold which may even lead to loss of bitcoin because of a lot of faults of these poorly coded forks. replay attacks, leaking your private keys are two that comes to mind.

there is a lot of potential in bitcoin and also in some rare altcoins which nobody pays much attention to because bigger altcoins have taken their place on top of the lists!

so yeah i believe in the future of bitcoin and those rare altcoins. i also believe in the future of this technology, and also that means the market for these technologies will grow bigger with more adoption and more interest from people.
it is mostly because of the decentralized feature of them and then the rest of the features such as cheapness, speed and security.

it is just blockchain.info failing to figure out who mined those blocks

example:
https://blockchain.info/block/000000000000000000305204772044cd219ca2ed4323c4a541d48924a1a5a03d
BC.I shows Unknown.

the coinbase transaction shows it was mined by "ckpool"
https://blockchain.info/tx/f2b7d7f6c0dea618cfb9774fad5f93dc8d64bb18a5043a9dd19bf758f2c43665?show_adv=true
look at that second output which BC.I shows as "Unable to decode output address" in red, that is an OP_Return output which contains some text which you can see at the bottom.

when the project is open source and you can simply earn a lot of money by just forking it, that means any idiot with basic programming knowledge is going to fork bitcoin and create some shitcoin and call it a "cryptocurrency", but calling it doesn't make it true ever.

i recently said, there have been 667 forks of bitcoin. what you see these days is essentially the same just a different way of doing an airdrop and it actually makes things harder for users of that coin because of the big bitcoin blockchain! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2292712.0

it is already too late to do this. you had to deposit your bitcoin on these exchanges before the so called snapshot was taken at block 491,407 (which is 35 blocks ago).

from now on, the only option is waiting until they release a wallet, then the blocks start being mined then you make a transaction using their wallet and your keys to send your coins to exchanges to sell.

you have to wait for the Bitcoin Gold developers team to finish up coding! the project is very incomplete right now and there are a lot of issues they need fixing, some of them serious like implementing a strong two way replay protection. and until they do that, there is no way for you to "receive bitcoin gold".

what you currently see on exchanges is nothing more than IOUs. like some virtual numbers on your screen.

it was not the post fork money flowing back from bitcoin to altcoins. it was the fact that bitcoin price went down only because people expected it to go down like this and also because of the fact that this reversal always helps altcoins that have been dropping for a couple of days consistently to make a recovery.

and now they are just recovering from all that dump to gain back some small part of their price.

think of fork as a change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)

bitcoin is a set of codes and rules known as consensus rules, usually in bitcoin when you change those rules we call it creating a fork. sometimes it is done to fix an issue (bitcoin's first hard fork years ago) sometimes it is done to add some features or "upgrade" like SegWit or previous fork for adding P2SH.

other times you can change these consensus rules to create something new. like changing block time and  mining algorithm (litecoin), block size (bitcoin cash), mining algorithm (bitcoin gold) and lots of others. we call these altcoins.
sometimes these use bitcoin code only like litecoin and sometimes they also use the blockchain like the other two.

they set a block height (491,407) and anyone who had any amount of bitcoin before that block will receive the equal amount of the new coin (BTG). it is because they will use the same "database" (blockchain) and the same keys.
so in your wallet as long as you have the private keys (which you do when you use electrum) you have the coins. you use the same key to spend them on the other chain.

you already have 0.12 bitcoin gold too.
bitcoin price may or may not change because of it!

no because the plan was to take a snapshot of block 491,407 (it is always the block height that matters not the date and time) and that is already done (we are at block 491,440 now) so unless Bitcoin Gold team changes their mind and plans, you are out of luck.

by the time they decide to credit your account you can open your wallet and see (1:1) equal amount of BTG in your wallet under a new coin name. all automatically.

i know about Yobit and Bleutrade that have already had the market, credited the coins and also people have been trading BTG.

see their website for a bigger list: http://btcgpu.org/#ecosystem

the correct term is "another altcoin was created".

aka GPU-miners like those who have been mining ETH,... and no longer can.

false.
all bitcoin holders received 1 BTG which is changing value so fast. i got about $1000 per coin yesterday. others get $400 and soon they may get $1000 again or $100

3 words: dead cat bounce

nobody really cared about this fork anyways and it is too soon for $7k