Quote from: exstasie on October 22, 2017, 08:07:21 AM

Quote from: PirateHatForTea on October 21, 2017, 12:43:02 PM

It looks like there is a scam within a scam - as in other opportunistic scammers are trying to set up a scam based on claiming Bitcoin Gold.

Check out this site claimbitcoin.gold - linked to from the "Bitcoin Gold" (@btcgpu) twitter account, but clearly a scam. It asks you to enter your private key or seed to "verify ownership" of the address you are claiming for lol.

I don't want to lend any credence to the Bitcoin Gold project because I don't think it's innovative and I think it's just a cash grab. But you're referring to a straight-up scam not associated with the actual project. It's been known for some time that @btcgpu is an imposter. And it should be obvious to anyone who has been in the Bitcoin space for a while that you should never enter your private keys this way. The official mediums are the @bitcoingold Twitter account and btcgpu.org.

That's definitely one of the downsides of all this fork drama. All the greed and hype creates big opportunities for people to scam newbies.

Quote from: bambarmia on October 22, 2017, 07:46:03 AM

Quote from: exstasie on October 22, 2017, 07:39:12 AM

It's not just crappy exchanges like Yobit now. Bittrex has now announced support for the fork, and they are one of the largest altcoin exchanges on the market. I think they are looking for some hype to pump volumes after the account locking scare recently.

There is/was definitely more support for Bitcoin Cash. This time, Bitcoin miners (and the Unlimited supporters who wanted miners to decide consensus rules) don't have any reason to back the fork. But frankly, this fork hype just makes the Segwit2x fork look more and more silly. I'm beginning to think that's the point here! Maybe the point of Bitcoin Gold all along was to cause fatigue around all these Bitcoin forks.

Where did you see that bittrex has announced the support of Bitcoin Gold ? Any link ?

See their full statement here: https://support.bittrex.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002320451

This statement by bittrex looks more like a warning against Bitcoin Gold Scam !