Bitcoin Gold
BTGPrice
$11.29
24 Hour % Change
3.71%
Market Cap
$210.15M
Volume (24h)
$67.58M
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Key metrics
24 Hour Low
$10.18
24 Hour High
$12.02
Net change
$0.403213
24 Hour Open
$10.86
All time high
$456.25
Total Supply
18.61M
Returns (24H)
3.71%
Returns (YTD)
39.20%
Volatility (30d)
0.92
Transaction Count (24h)
1,178
Average Transaction Fee (24h)
$0.000869
Value Transacted (24h)
$5.36M
About Bitcoin Gold
Category
Currency
Value proposition
ASIC resistance
Bitcoin Gold is the result of a hard fork of Bitcoin on October 24th 2017 with the intention to reform the mining process to reduce centralization of large businesses by changing the mining algorithm. The end result reduces the advantage of large holders of capital and specialized technology (specifically ASICs) in favor of smaller miners and common technology (standard GPUs). Bitcoin Gold’s currency took on the ticker of BTG. In 2019 Bitcoin Gold will be working on enabling private transactions.
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