[SIM-82498]

Errbody gonna be cashing out their alts right before the fork for some free tokens, amirite?

[Goals]

Bitcoin is becoming a joke now. 2 hardforks within a 3-4 month span.

[Techius]

More free money!

Bitcoin is becoming a joke now. 2 hardforks within a 3-4 month span.

This isn't the fault of actual Bitcoin though.

[The Illusionist]

Bitcoin is becoming a joke now. 2 hardforks within a 3-4 month span.

Hardforks are much like altcoins, are altcoins a joke because there are thousands of altcoins? A forkcoin can be created by pretty much anyone really, and it's almost more efficient than starting an altcoin with an ICO. Because with forkcoins you get an airdrop of coins, everyone who owns the original coin now owns the new coin. This is good because then you already have a solid user base + a lot of name recognition.
I think we will see a lot more forkcoins coming soon.

[TheIndex]

Very good points, I am not sure myself.

[The Illusionist]

Update #1:
bitstar.com & bitexchange.com.hk are confirmed exchange site that will support this fork, if you have BTC on these exchanges you will get BitcoinGold when the split happens.

Update #2:
A new schedule has been released, there is a good chance this will be launching the 1st of October.

[うるさい Shana]

Update #1:
bitstar.com & bitexchange.com.hk are confirmed exchange site that will support this fork, if you have BTC on these exchanges you will get BitcoinGold when the split happens.

Update #2:
A new schedule has been released, there is a good chance this will be launching the 1st of October.

Any speculation on if this would affect the market like it did in the first fork?

[The Illusionist]

Any speculation on if this would affect the market like it did in the first fork?

I suppose it will, BCH is now $600 with a 10 bill market cap I see no reason why BTG wouldn't have a few bill dollar market.

[MagnusStor]

Dont see why free coins make up such a high marketcap. Or am I wrong here?

And whats the main difference between CASH AND GOLD?

[The Illusionist]

Dont see why free coins make up such a high marketcap. Or am I wrong here?

And whats the main difference between CASH AND GOLD?

Because these coins are just as rare as BTC and take over a large user base from BTC. Every active BTC user will use BCH at some point due to either selling it or trading it.

Main difference:
BitcoinCash created a new blockchain with larger block sizes
BitcoinGold will create a new blockchain with GPU mineable blocks making mining decentralized again.

[Malentor]

I like free money but seems like everyone now will make a new fork of bitcoin and generate free money. Although I like free money I'm worried how this will affect bitcoin? There is already like 5 forks of bitcoin and we all keep using the original one xD

[Orgy]

no ones gonna care about this nonsense lol

[The Illusionist]

no ones gonna care about this nonsense lol

This is actually pretty big for the mining community, the entire mining community (except for those big multi-million dollar companies) all run GPU miners soon this community of miners can mine BitcoinGold. Plus anyone who wants to do a little mining as a hobby can start doing it with their desktop PC.

It means that the BitcoinGold blockchain could potentially hold a lot of hashing power compared to the blockchain of BTC or BCH.

Update #3:

BTG will have Windows, Linux and Mac support for both wallets and mining on the day of release.

Update #4:
BTG will implement Lightning Network as soon as possible, to benefit from the BTC/LTC Lightning ecosystem and network effects.

[LanMan]

Update #4:
BTG will implement Lightning Network as soon as possible, to benefit from the BTC/LTC Lightning ecosystem and network effects.

Oh that means it will have segwit then ?

[Orgy]

This is actually pretty big for the mining community, the entire mining community (except for those big multi-million dollar companies) all run GPU miners soon this community of miners can mine BitcoinGold. Plus anyone who wants to do a little mining as a hobby can start doing it with their desktop PC.

anyone can release coins easy to mine for GPU miners -- that doesn't mean it'll be valuable