Bitcoin Gold hopes to change the paradigm around mining on the Bitcoin blockchain. According to the founders, the Bitcoin blockchain has become too centralized. Large companies with huge banks of mining computers now mine the vast majority of Bitcoin. For the founders of Bitcoin Gold, having large companies control the Bitcoin network defeats the purpose of a decentralized ledger and peer-to-peer currencies. In response, they’ve initialized the Bitcoin Gold project. It’s an alternate fork of the Bitcoin blockchain that implements changes that make mining more equitable. The goal of Bitcoin Gold is to create a network where anyone can become a miner with only basic hardware. As a result, Bitcoin Gold mining would be spread among many miners, instead of a few large companies.There have several features such as decentralization. Bitcoin Gold decentralizes mining by adopting a PoW algorithm,…

Bitcoin Gold is classified under Smart Contract Platform, Bitcoin Fork, Proof of Work (PoW).

Bitcoin Gold is a native coin with its own chain rather than a token issued on someone else's network.

Bitcoin Gold ranks #1684 by market capitalisation, which places it outside the top 500 by market value.

BTG turns over $723,000 in a typical day against a market capitalisation of $4.1 million.

BTG trades on 1 market across the exchanges we track.