THELOGICALINDIAN - The Bitcoin Gold BTG arrangement suffered addition set of 51 attacks on January 2324 as almost 29 blocks were removed in two abysmal blockchain reorganizations reorgs Reports announce that added than 7000 BTG was bifold spent 70000 in two days
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Bitcoin Gold Sees Two Deep Blockchain Reorgs With 29 Blocks Replaced
In May 2018, the Bitcoin Gold (BTG) blockchain was 51% attacked for the aboriginal time adversity a accident of added than $18 million. BTG is a angle of the Bitcoin agreement but it doesn’t use the SHA256 accord algorithm like BTC, BCH, or BSV. The blockchain BTG utilizes a alternative of the Equihash algorithm (Equihash 144, 5 or “Zhash”) which can be mined with a GPU. Bitcoin Gold’s creators believed that creating a Bitcoin angle that could be mined with GPUs as against to ASIC accessories would be added decentralized. However, things went south in the bounce of 2018 aback a miner acquired ascendancy of added than 51% of the all-embracing BTG hashrate. After accident $18 million, BTG was additionally asked to pay the barter Bittrex aback or face actuality delisted. Since again BTG has been meandering forth while added baby bill like ethereum archetypal and vertcoin were 51% attacked too.
Last anniversary on Thursday and Friday, BTG afresh dealt with a awful mining article as added than 51% of the chain’s hashrate was captured and still is. The blockchain suffered from two abysmal reorgs on both canicule that saw $19,000 bifold spent on Thursday and $53,000 bifold spent on Friday. For instance, at about 1:01 p.m. on Thursday, BTG’s alternation saw 14 blocks removed and 13 new blocks added. At 7:24 p.m. on Friday, the blockchain saw 15 blocks removed and 16 blocks added during a baby aeon of time. Best of the accusation has been directed at the billow mining operation Nicehash which has been abhorrent for best of the 51% attacks in the aftermost two years. Some BTG associates accept that there are abstruse ASICs mining the BTG arrangement and association associates are allurement for a safer algorithm.
“I anticipate it’s time we get a absolute baton that listens to the associates of this association and booty action,” one BTG backer wrote on Reddit. “It is accessible that the aboriginal 51% advance was done by ASICs — Why can’t BTG be atypical and actualize a absolutely new [algorithm]? This bread is a bad advance for anyone attractive to buy — None of the devs are qualified.”
$719 per Hour to Attack as Nicehash Captures 57% of the Bitcoin Gold Hashrate
During the aftermost few months, news.Bitcoin.com has appear on how the three capital SHA256 Bitcoin forks accept apparent an exponential rise in hashrate. BTG’s hashrate, on the added hand, has not followed the aforementioned arrangement and has beneath decidedly back the aftermost 51% advance in May 2018. The abridgement of hashpower abaft the BTG arrangement makes the blockchain acutely accessible to added 51% attacks unless the developers change the accord algorithm. According to statistics from the Crypto51 application, BTG alone has 3 actor hashes per additional (3MH/s) accepting the chain. It would alone amount $788 per hour to 51% advance the BTG blockchain and account a reorg with bifold spending.
The billow mining armpit Nicehash sells individuals and businesses CPU and GPU-based hashrate and on January 26, Nicehash commands 57-74% of the BTG hashrate or 2MH/s. A allegory of how abundant easier it is to advance the Bitcoin Gold alternation in adverse to the Zcash (ZEC) arrangement shows it’s far added acceptable to advance BTG. Even admitting they allotment a agnate Equihash variant, ZEC has 5 billion hashes per additional (5GH/s) accepting the blockchain. Nicehash miners who are mining ZEC alone abduction 182 MH/s of the all-embracing 5GH/s or a bald 3% of the network. The estimated amount to 51% advance ZEC is abundant beyond than the BTG advance at $11,788 per hour to achieve the mission.
Interestingly enough, and agnate to bill like vertcoin and ethereum classic, BTG’s bazaar amount did not bead in value. In fact, BTG’s price has jumped back the 51% advance and is up over 9.6% for the anniversary and 15% in the aftermost 24 hours. To best observers, it is aberrant that instead of accident amount afterwards two abysmal reorgs and $70,000 in bifold spends, BTG is seeing added bazaar appeal than it has in months.
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