Don/t you think i't too late to get some BTC before fork? BTC price $5k+ now and to get any conciderable amount of bitcoingold you need to invest a lot of money in bitcoin.
Byzantium HF officially confirmed to be on block 4370000 as expected. See the post on the official blog here.
In official blog therei is nothing about how difficulty will change after Byzantium. I read that ice age is delayed for one year but now difficulty is already high because of diff bombs every month. So will Byzantium make difficulty lower?