Speculative asset due to the high volatility seen in bitcoin s price action the cryptocurrency is popular among traders particularly swing traders and day traders capitalizing on major inter day or intraday price movements. E commerce merchants often accept bitcoin as well as currencies like the us dollar and you can use bitcoin to invest in gold and silver. Bitcoin gold changed bitcoin s proof of work algorithm from sha256 to equihash rendering specialized mining equipment obsolete in an attempt to democratize the bitcoin mining process.
Bitcoin gold btg is a fork of bitcoin that occurred on 24 october 2017 on block 419406. Check out our live streaming charts and. Stay up to date with the latest bitcoin gold price movements news forecasts.
Current bitcoin gold btg price chart bitcoin gold market cap and volume. Upbit is the current most active market trading it. It has a circulating supply of 18 million coins and a max supply of 21 million coins.
Btg price is up 4 8 in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin gold price today is 10 86 with a 24 hour trading volume of 16 095 838. Bitcoin gold is not supported by coinbase.
Bitcoin gold changed bitcoin s proof of work algorithm from sha256 to equihash rendering specialized mining equipment obsolete in an attempt to democratize the bitcoin mining process. Bitcoin gold btg is a fork of bitcoin that occurred on 24 october 2017 on block 419406.