A little over a month ago we published an announcement regarding our ongoing engineering efforts to allow withdrawal of bitcoin cash (BCH) for customers who had bitcoin balances at the
time of the chain split.
However, if there is just one full node or even a small percentage of full nodes that validate blocks that a majority of miners are mining on, then there is an imminent
risk of a chain split.
One argument is that owning bitcoin cash is different from the original bitcoin, because otherwise why go through the
trouble of a chain split, if not to create a new coin with different properties?
Another major Japanese exchange Coincheck, revealed that it is «planning to provide Bitcoin Gold» in the
aftermath of a chain split.
With over a thousand nodes supporting BIP 148, the proposal that will make all blocks not signaling Segwit invalid, the
odds of a chain split are growing every day.
Trezor's main issue with BTG is that the code for it currently offers no replay protection, meaning that due to the
nature of the chain split there is a potential to lose or transmit your Bitcoins rather than just your Bitcoin Gold.
regarding our ongoing engineering efforts to allow withdrawal of bitcoin cash (BCH) for customers who had bitcoin balances at the
time of the chain split.
Coincheck, another major Japanese exchange, also announced it is «planning to provide Bitcoin Gold» in the
event of a chain split.
The other thing that users are concerned about is the possibility
of a chain split (in past we wrongly used the word «hard fork» instead of chain split to describe this).
A little over a month ago we published an announcement regarding our ongoing engineering efforts to allow withdrawal of bitcoin cash (BCH) for customers who had bitcoin -LSB-...] A little over a month ago we published an announcement regarding our ongoing engineering efforts to allow withdrawal of bitcoin cash (BCH) for customers who had bitcoin balances at the time
of the chain split.
In other words, the amount of BTG distributed to bitFlyer account holders will be based on the amount of BTG held in their corresponding account at the time
of the chain split.