Shitshow to Success? Bitcoin Gold's Launch Has Been Anything But Smooth
From Coindesk
An attack, a chain split and general chaos on social media aren't getting the developers behind bitcoin's latest fork down.Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/shitshow-success-bitcoin-golds-launch-anything-smooth/The bitcoin gold cryptocurrency, which split from bitcoin in October, at the time touting a new mining scheme, has had a rocky start since it launched its live network on Nov. 12.
Within the first day after its release, one of the network's mining pools, "pool.gold," suffered a denial-of-service attack that took it offline for an hour and a half. Shortly after, the blockchain split when pool.gold and another mining pool called Suprnova found blocks at the same time.
Eventually, one chain was ruled as the ledger of record, but not before mining was halted on the other chain and pool.gold reset, erasing funds for some unlucky miners.
"It's just been a mess with the opening – nodes not syncing and different heights of the blockchain and then restarting nodes and resetting and erasing miner's totals," said a bitcoin gold miner who wished to remain anonymous.
He added candidly:
"[It's] just a shitshow."
Not a good start at all yet I'm still attracted to this project due to it enabling me to mine without purchasing asic hardware.
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