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Category: Bitcoin News
Is HitBTC going to exit scam soon? HitBTC affiliate program not working?
People always complain about cryptocurrency exchanges. No exchange is perfect but there is one exchange that is in the lime light lately and getting a lot of ‘smack’ from people. It’s HitBTC. Several have been complaining about inability to withdraw their funds from the exchange. One user had to be wait for full four months and several tickets just to get his funds withdrawn from the exchange.
Samsung accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, Dash, Nem, and Steem via CopPay
If you live in Baltic and fan of cryptocurrency, CopPay has got you covered. You will now be able to pay for Samsung products using Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, Dash, Nem, and Steem. CopPay is also being accepted in the local restaurants and other retailers as well. CopPay has also initiated a referral program to accelerate cryptofication all over Europe.
Bitcoin Gold ElectrumG wallet available for download: Electrum Wallet for BTG lets you send or receive Bitcoin Gold without download blockchain
ElectrumG Bitcoin Gold wallet is now available for download, which is basically an electrum wallet for the BTG. This allows the users to manage their funds without downloading Bitcoin Gold blockchain that runs into many gigabytes. So think of it like your typical android wallet but made for desktop – you don’t have to download blockchain – simply use seed or private keys to send funds.
Bitcoin Cash added to Purse.io
Purse.io, a website which lets you shop on Amazon on Bitcoin has added option for Bitcoin Cash. There was a rumor about Purse adding BCH support last year as well but looks like it took them some additional time to get it working.
Bitcoin Gold DNS servers hacked, website and forum pointing to funny YouTube video
DNS servers of Bitcoin Gold were hacked yesterday and the official website, bitcoingold.org is redirecting to “Juice Wrld – Lucid Dreams” YouTube video. The official forum, forum.bitcoingold.org is also redirecting to the video but direct links to forum topics are not redirecting to video and are inaccessible.
Bitcoin Gold mainnet network upgrade test phase has begun
Few days back, we mentioned how the Bitcoin Gold was changing its mining algorithm to make BTG mining difficult for the ASIC miners. Today, the Bitcoin Gold team has begun testing the new algorithm on their test pool. So if you are a miner, you might want to test it.
Bitcoin Gold updates equihash algorithm for ASIC resistance
Bitcoin Gold currently makes use of equihash algorithm which is already being used by cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin Gold is going to use modified version of this algorithm in order to keep their blockchain ASIC resistance and prevent it from 51 percent attacks. Current equihash requires minimum 50MB memory but runs faster with 144MB memory. These memory requirements were said to be enough to prevent ASIC manufactures from building ASIC. In 2018, this is not enough.
Best Blockchain Network according to China: Hint–BTC is not #1!
Ministry of industry and information technology, China has released public blockchain ratings and surprisingly, bitcoin is not #1 on the list. The top 5 coins are Ethereum, Steem, Lisk, Neo and KMD. This is followed by Stellar Lumens, Cardano, IOTA, Monero and Stratis. Bitcoin ranks #13, trailing behind Qtum and Bitshares.
Bitcoin Gold added to BTCPay open source payment processor
BTCPay Server has added support for Bitcoin Gold (BTG) in the latest update, v1.0.2.11. While it is not yet available in the docker, it will soon be enabled and people will be able to use Bitcoin Gold for making payments. BTCPay server is an open source payment processor that is written in C#. It allows easy migration of your code base to self hosted payment processor.