Bitcoin Gold’s breach reflects badly on the entire cryptocurrency market

Nov28

by Sindy Cator on November 28, 2017 at 5:08 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, hardfork, Insider

While the sudden surge in the price of Bitcoin might have stolen the media spotlight over the past few days, a less popular spinoff from the core Bitcoin blockchain, known as Bitcoin Gold, has been on the receiving end of tons of criticism from both the press and crypto community – and not without a reason. Shortly after a data correction on November 25 made Bitcoin Gold the fifth biggest cryptocurrency by market share on Coin Market Cap, the company released a critical warning on its blog, revealing that its team discovered “two suspicious files of unknown origin” in its Windows Wallet…