The planned Bitcoin Gold hardware took place just before the deadline.
A snapshot of the bitcoin, as confirmed by the developers of the project, was made on block 491,407.
Initially, it was expected that the BTG fork will occur on October 25, but the bitcoin network reached this block somewhat faster.
As the project developers confirmed on the eve of the published road map, the Bitcoin Gold network itself will not be launched immediately, but a few days after the snapshot. Presumably, this should happen on November 1.
Earlier Bitcoin Gold was criticized for its lack of adequate protection against replaying transactions, but the developers assured that such protection will be implemented, and this will be done before the official launch of the network. They also promise a unique address format.
Earlier representatives of Bitcoin Gold stated that they intend to create a truly "decentralized bitcoin", and thanks to the use of the algorithm of Equihash, mining will become more simple and affordable for ordinary users.
Earlier, some exchanges and purse providers have already expressed their position on BTG. So, Coinbase and GDAX do not plan to charge users with new coins, Bittrex, although it does, but refuses to launch BTG trades. They refuse to support EXMO and WEX, but HitBTC and Yobit, on the contrary, are ready to support the coin. Bitfinex, meanwhile, not only confirmed the release of shared tokens (Chain Split Tokens), but also started trading them.
Meanwhile, the price of the original bitcoin, shortly before hardfork attempted again to break through the mark of $ 6000, but subsequently adjusted, retreating to $ 5600 - $ 5700.
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