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.
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.
Navcoin NEXT is a complete redesign of the current wallet which not only looks much sleeker than the current wallet but also offers more features. Current wallet is a fork of original bitcoin wallet but NEXT looks totally different. Today, v1.0.2 Alpha was released which bought a slew of new features over the previous release.
Sapling is next major upgrade for the Zcash coin which was supposed to be roll out before September has been postponed. This will not affect timeline of Zcash Overwinter update that will be activated on June 25th 2018 and so are other related activities like third party security audits.
Vertpig Swap has been announced by the Vertpig team. This means that you will be able to swap between supported coins at current market rate for just the trading fee. There is no additional commission involved and there are no network / mining fees. On top of all, there is no account required as well.
Tezos Foundation has announced that it will be implementing KYC/AML checks for all of its investors. They have asked the users to visit verification.tezos.com and enter KYC information. A year ago when they did an ICO literally no one was doing KYC checks, the landscape changed a lot in recent months. If you’ve been following ICOs you know that any ICO working with MME Switzerland requires full KYC and they formed the Tezos Foundation. The KYC check now might seem odd since it’s a year after the ICO, the fact is that most other ICOs were just handing out ERC20 tokens so they didn’t need to build a working project yet before they could do the distribution. That’s what makes this situation different.
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.
Deep Brain Chain (DBC), a Neo token can get you free One Game (OGT) tokens. In this article, we will explain how to claim them. Deep Brain Chain is artificial intelligence computing platform that is blockchain driven and aims to solve computing power cost and data privacy.
Ethereum Private is an upcoming hard fork of Ethereum and Zcash blockchain and promises to combine everything that is great about Ethereum and Zcash. Ethereum Private hard fork date is 13th of June 2018. Each Ethereum holders gets ETHP coins in 1:1 ratio while Zcash holders get 0.5ETHP for each ZEC they hold (1:2). So, if you have 2 ethereum, you get 2 ETHP and if you’ve 2 Zcash, you get 1 ETHP.
One of the best things about decentralized blockchains like bitcoin, ethereum and ethereum classic is that anyone can perform a hard fork and make a new coin. Ethereum Emerald is going to do a hard fork on 13th of July 2018.