Quote from: CarelessWabbit on June 23, 2018, 08:33:58 PM

Quote from: h4x3rotab on June 22, 2018, 04:26:31 PM

Quote from: Admkng5 on June 22, 2018, 12:04:00 PM

You know, viruses was in early versions of your wallet.
What can you say about huge premine? About hidden fee in your pool from start? And users mined more then day after start and got nothing. Be careful with it.

You really know a lot about BTG's history! Looks like misunderstanding of BTG is very common. But we know that it's never too late for us to realize and begin to fix it

1. Our GitHub account was once hacked and the released binaries were replaced by a hacker. It doesn't come with any typical virus but added a very clever backdoor. We have never seen this kind of attack before. Fortunately we have finally solved the problem before the coins are hacked. Here's the analysis:
https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU/wiki/Replaced-Windows-Wallet-Problem-Analysis-(Nov-26th)
And the announcement after the accident:
https://medium.com/@btcgpu/vulnerable-wallets-and-the-suspicious-file-82cae0c48a48

2. The community endowment (or, premine as you said) is 0.5% of the total supply. We don't know any other altcoin with this tiny amount of premine. The endowment is mined by the miners by their willing. All the endowment are in 4-of-6 multisig with time-lock to ensure it won't be dump by any team member. The use of the endowment is totally for the development and community, as described in our FAQ (currently our website is under attack but as soon as it's recovered I will put the link here).

3. In principle, the pool z-nomp was developed by one of our core dev (Martin) and it hasn't once been included as a part of the official BTG project. It's his right to include any fee in the software (just as miners, but the pool is an opensource project). Some of the pool ops who had read the code have removed the fee and some had kept the fee. However one operator didn't read the code and complained on social medias. Then Martin admitted it's his fault for not addressing the fee everywhere in the documentation. And finally he returned all the fee to that pool, and donated the remaining to charities.

4. On the first day of the launch the partnered pool "pool.gold" has encountered some problems which caused it in an incorrect chain. Technically it was not a chain split because pool.gold itself produced a wrong chain. It ends up the pool lost some blocks. The pool finally 100% refunded all the miners according to the accepted shares in the database.

Hope you are happy with my answers.

so:

1. 51% attack and 388k coins stolen, being dumped on Bitfinex now;
2. what about that February Xapo coins that are being dumped on exchanges and not via OTC? How many coins do they have? like 700k I guess?

You are down 95% from ATH. It is a well known fact that even small Bitmain GPU farm can make 51% attack again on your chain. Nice exit scam tho. Selling ATH like Charlie Lee did ) I think this is an asian thing.

There are a few things that bothered me about this reply:

1) We had nothing to do with being 51% attacked, we did not have a vulnerability or exploit to cause this, it can happen to any altcoin as this website shows https://www.crypto51.app/ - no matter which chain. Also, the number 388k was just a magic number that the media adopted, so was the number $18million. There is no way to know the exact amount, because this depends on the exchange reports. I personally have seen no official ones. However, we have still taken further action to help prevent this from happening. We have an emergency telegram with engineers from different exchanges and are monitoring hashrate anomalies constantly for multiple different hashing algorithms. This is our defense against 51% attacks.

2) What exactly do we have to do with how Xapo sells their split? They did the exact same thing with BCH, they do as they want. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7hx1ph/xapo_530000_bch_selloff_only_2413_bch_remain/

Since you are mentioning being down from 95%, currently there are 18 out of the top 50 CMC coins that are down over 85% or higher https://twitter.com/btg_Joseph/status/1010537578259415041 https://athcoinindex.com/ . Is this our fault as well? And selling at ATH? That was in December, if we were a scam and still here now June 23? The only ones we are scamming are ourselves.

Here is the truth: https://bitcoingold.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BitcoinGold-Roadmap.pdf Our original whitepaper from October, page 10 of 12, this is how the endowment is being paid. Time-locked funds, so it was never possible for us to exit scam anyway.

Have a good day.