THELOGICALINDIAN - Last anniversary it emerged that a affected BTG wallet which had been answer on the bitcoin gold website was counterfeit The teams developers removed mybtgwallet already the betray came to ablaze but not afore array of innocent users had been bamboozled The absolute bulk of cryptocurrency absent to the artifice has now been totted up and it comes to a whopping 33 million
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Fool’s Gold
The website absolute the affected wallet, which encouraged users to upload their clandestine keys and affirmation their chargeless bitcoin gold, has back been purged, but an archived adaptation can still be viewed:
The boilerplate user, visiting the bitcoin gold website which independent a articulation to mybtgwallet, would accept had no way of alive that the wallet was a trap. The BTG aggregation additionally tweeted links to the wallet and reassured users that it was safe to use, arch to some abroad individuals to alarm the accomplished activity a conspiracy. The acknowledged break-in of over $3 actor of cryptocurrency raises austere questions, not alone about the activity of the BTG team, but the obligations of developers as a whole.
This week, it additionally emerged that $7 actor account of the Verge altcoin had been stolen from Coinpouch, an iOS wallet which had additionally been answer on the Verge website. Should developers be accountable to audit the cipher for third affair wallets afore announcement them? The boilerplate user lacks the abstruse commonsense to analysis for awful code, but the aforementioned cannot be said of cryptocurrency devs. The bitcoin gold aggregation additionally angle accused of actuality apathetic to act already the betray came to light, with a aggregation affiliate advertence aftermost week:
Those claims would arise to accept been wholly accurate. In total, $3 actor of bitcoin, $107,000 of bitcoin gold, $72,000 of litecoin and $30,000 of ethereum was swiped by the article abaft mybtgwallet. The bearding developer abaft the counterfeit wallet went to abundant lengths to arrange the scam. The wallet was allegedly accessible source, but the cipher was after adapted on Github, enabling the clandestine keys from users to be beatific anon to the mybtgwallet scammer.
A statement appear by the bitcoin gold aggregation said:
The BTG aggregation are accepted to accommodate a added amend in the advancing days.
All That Glitters
After the admeasurement of the mybtgwallet drudge came to light, one antecedent almsman of angled bill – Bitmain’s Jihan Wu – had this to say:
With every casual fork, the bearing of bitcoin banknote is starting to attending like a arbiter case in 
how to angle a coin. With bitcoin design (BTD) the abutting angle to be born, which is estimated to action on November 24, bitcoin holders who acquire their own keys accept a bind to face: affirmation BTD, or comedy it safe and avoid the angled bread altogether. The third option, of advance is to accelerate bitcoin to an barter that will abutment BTD and acquit the coins, but relying on centralized exchanges is not after its risks either. Despite the abrogating publicity surrounding bitcoin gold, the amount of the basic bill has climbed acutely this anniversary forth with its adolescent angle bitcoin cash.
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