There will be a Bitcoin Gold (BTG) signer?

[johnlu]

Hi, as you guys did before for us to transact our BCHs securely using our favorite bitcoin wallet.
Are you going to develop a signer for BTG?

:-)

[achow101]

It seems like Bitcoin Gold is changing a lot of things (including the Proof of Work algorithm), so it is unlikely that Armory will be supporting it at all.

[qoinjoin]

A signer would be nice to get the Bitcoin Gold out safely

[goatpig]

I'll evaluate the effort based on the valuation. If it is significant and lasting, I'll oblige. Otherwise, no thanks.

[hugeblack]

Hi, as you guys did before for us to transact our BCHs securely using our favorite bitcoin wallet.
Are you going to develop a signer for BTG?

:-)

Many trusted members say BTG is  scammy  Because no ideology and no economic support

till theymos say that

Anyone can create a Bitcoin-derived altcoin like "Bitcoin Gold" (BTG) at any time with no cost. BTG is a scammy cash-grab with no ideology and no economic support, not something serious like Bcash was. That's not to say that it's impossible to make money by trading it, just like with other scamcoins, but I'm not going to get into the habit of writing announcements and guidance for every Bitcoin-derived scamcoin. If you want to do a dangerous replay-unprotected coin-split maneuver in order to claim tiny fractions of your BTC in airdrop value, that's on you.

I will write a guide later for B2X (split time in mid-November), which is more serious. After that, the bar is going to be awfully high to get me to announce similar things.

[Casimir1904]

I'll evaluate the effort based on the valuation. If it is significant and lasting, I'll oblige. Otherwise, no thanks.

It seems that this scamcoin still keeps some value.
Do you consider to add support for it?

Would make dumping them easier but ofc don't know how much work that is to create a version for that BS...

[goatpig]

Valuation is abysmal atm. I don't know what has to be done to support BTG, someone would have to point me at their repo/docs. I'm really taking this from the perspective of lowest effort possible atm, as these forks are more likely to ruins users' privacy than to actually net them anything. Not that I am indulging in hand holding, but don't expect me to spend significant time on this currently. Aren't they still in premine anyways?

[Casimir1904]

Valuation is abysmal atm. I don't know what has to be done to support BTG, someone would have to point me at their repo/docs. I'm really taking this from the perspective of lowest effort possible atm, as these forks are more likely to ruins users' privacy than to actually net them anything. Not that I am indulging in hand holding, but don't expect me to spend significant time on this currently. Aren't they still in premine anyways?

I don't like them either but we have somehow to support that crap for our users.
And tbh its more risky and ruining privacy to move coins first on one chain/create new wallets to export the old keys and import them then into that crap wallet.
Not talking about the risk of storing keys on online system.

Premine is over, I think one exchange has Deposits and Withdrawals enabled so far.
Our node synced also finally after some days ( They released their node without working DNS seeds and then shared 2 nodes what was extremly slow, only their pool was sync ofc.. ).
I see a good reason for the BCH fork no matter if someone likes it or not but that causes now a lot more forks because some scammers think they can get rich quick.

Their Repo: https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU

You can't reuse the Bitcoin datadir. It need to resync from scratch, I could PM you my node to connect to ( 1gbit/s ) If you want.

[goatpig]

Do they have documentation on their replay and wipeout protection?

[Casimir1904]

Do they have documentation on their replay and wipeout protection?

On first view i can't find any documentation.
If I ever going to Fork a coin I'll make sure I get wallet developers before. Original developers or devs who can fork and enable support for my fork.
This is really annoying...
Business plan:
Fork. [...] Profit....

[goatpig]

Yeah so Ima have to get on their slack and ask directly or read their code? Already deterred =D

[Casimir1904]

Yeah so Ima have to get on their slack and ask directly or read their code? Already deterred =D

I'll spam on their Twitter and redirect them to this thread...

[goatpig]

Or get on their slack and ask them to point you at the changesets. I'm not going there. They didn't bother extending me an invite, I'm not gonna bother getting one.

[Casimir1904]

Or get on their slack and ask them to point you at the changesets. I'm not going there. They didn't bother extending me an invite, I'm not gonna bother getting one.

I was on their slack and closed it again.
Seems there was a chain split already and now there is or was 2 chains.
Posted the blockhash of the latest block and asked if that is the correct chain and they suggest i go to ask somewhere else.
Lot of users who got scammed by the online wallet they posted as official BTG wallet, seems they have taken that offline now.

My suggestion to everyone:
If you split coins make sure you send your BTC first to a new wallet and wait till they are fully confirmed.
If you import then the now empty privkeys make sure you send them to an exchange as quick as possible to dump them.
Or just forget about this scam at all, as soon more exchanges enables deposits and withdrawals it will crash into nothing anyway.

On their wallet release there was no working dnsseed after a big delay they posted in the git issues 2 node ips what was super slow to sync.
One exchange enabled deposits and withdrawals pretty quick ( So guess they got a better connection to the dev nodes ).
Their own pool was the only one with a sync node as well for long time. ( So they could mine a lot more after their scam premine ).
The online wallet was linked on their official site and spammed on their official twitter with paying a bonus when you import your privkey.
Lot users reports now that BTC was stolen and ofc no BTG was credited when they tried to claim.

I Try to split coins to cover user balances of btcpop but i'm not going to waste any more time and not even going to split my own coins.
The node we run runs on a seperated server in a seperated network. 0 Trust for this scamcoin.