Fork the Fork: Bitcoin Gold Set to Make Yet Another Hard Fork

[kreslik.news]

Bitcoin Gold, already a fork of Bitcoin, has announced an upcoming hard fork of its network. With this upgrade, the development team is aiming at two aspects that are making the network vulnerable – the threat of increasing ASIC miner flooding the network and to prevent future 51 percent attacks.

In the official announcement released on 4th June, the team noted: “We’re doing this for two reasons: we need to address the threat of ASIC miners coming into the Equihash mining space, and we need to take steps to improve the security of our blockchain in light ... (read more)