A crypto fork is a splitting of the blockchain of a digital currency into two separate chains, resulting in the existence of two separate digital currencies. Forks can be temporary or permanent, and often result from disagreements within a digital currency’s community of developers over how to modify the codebase. When a fork occurs, the […]
When Did Bitcoin Gold Fork
When Did Bitcoin Gold Fork? The Bitcoin Gold (BTG) fork occurred on October 24, 2017, at block height 491407. The purpose of the fork was to create a new cryptocurrency that would be more decentralized than Bitcoin. Bitcoin Gold is based on the Bitcoin protocol but uses a different mining algorithm, called Equihash, that is […]
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