The collective minds behind
bitcoin gold designed a code that creates a fork or split in the bitcoin blockchain.
Not exact matches
But
Bitcoin Gold will use an algorithm known as «Equihash» which is
designed so that people can effectively use their graphical processing units, or GPUs — common computer gaming hardware — to profitably mine the coin for the foreseeable future.
The futures are
designed to reflect the price of
bitcoin without an investor having to physically hold the virtual currency, not unlike how oil,
gold, copper or cocoa prices are determined by futures contracts.
Created by former Google employee Charlie Lee, Litecoins were always
designed to be the silver to
Bitcoin's
Gold.
Monero was
designed to provide the relative transactional privacy that
Bitcoin lacked, and Litecoin was the silver equivalent to
gold's
Bitcoin.
Bitcoins are not issued by banks or governments — indeed the
Bitcoin platform was
designed to offer an alternative to national currencies like the dollar, and commodity - based currencies such as
gold or silver coins.
Because it's similar to
gold mining in that the
bitcoins exist in the protocol's
design (just as the
gold exists underground), but they haven't been brought out into the light yet (just as the
gold hasn't yet been dug up).
The creators of
Bitcoin Gold believe that
Bitcoin is no longer as decentralized as it should be, and they have
designed Bitcoin Gold to decentralize mining and keep it that way.
Another fork of
bitcoin took place this fall,
bitcoin gold, which sought to incorporate technology used by other cryptocurrenices
designed to block factors that led to more centralized mining.
Bitcoin gold is designed to be more decentralized than bitcoin for
Bitcoin gold is
designed to be more decentralized than
bitcoin for
bitcoin for miners.
Bitcoin Gold which has been
designed keeping in mind the mining challenges will be launched on 25th October.
Of note are the Mt. Gox bankruptcy filing and
Bitcoin gold — a project
designed to create a new form of cryptocurrency that also tapped into the
Bitcoin name.
Here's why that's not a radical idea: it's how Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of
Bitcoin, for a time had
designed Bitcoin before settling on a 1 MB transaction size — a decision which, perhaps, led to
Bitcoin being christened «digital
gold.»
Bitcoin was explicitly
designed to be digital
gold.
Bitcoin gold was a project
designed to create a new form of cryptocurrency that also tapped into the
Bitcoin name.
Bitcoin Gold was
designed to change
Bitcoin's consensus mechanism, thereby allowing users to employ graphic processing units (GPU) and lowering the barrier to entry for new miners.
Other mining algorithms like Ethash (Ethereum) and Equihash (Zcash,
Bitcoin Gold) have since been
designed to resist ASIC mining, hence why GPU mining (and sales for Nvidia) remains a popular venture, for now.
Eco is in it to win it and is
designed to go head - to - head with
bitcoin,
gold and fiat money for daily global payment transactions.