Bitcoin Gold is a cryptocurrency that was created in October, 2017 in order to restore GPU mining instead of using ASICs that prevail in BTC network. Now Bitcoin Gold is an independent coin with the team of developers, contributors and a unique roadmap, planned up to 2019 year.
Bitcoin Gold mining is built on the Equihash, a Proof-of-Work algorithm, the same that is used for Zcash. It is using the solutions per second or Sol/s metric, which is equal to hashes per second when estimating the profit or your mining power. So there is no big difference between them for mining purposes.
Bitcoin Gold is actively traded on many cryptocurrency exchanges and supported by Trezor and Ledger companies, famous cold wallet devices.
Statistics
25.9MSol/s
World hash rate
19Sol/s
Pool hash rate
1
Connected miners
432
Blocks mined (total)
4years ago
Last Block Found
Exchange rate (avg. price)
1 BTG = 0.00053030
Advantages for miners
Opportunity to mine on ubiquitous GPUs
ASIC-resistant mining model
High block generation time & low mining difficulty
Low mining entry cost comparing to Zcash
The second Equihash-based coin in terms of a coin value
Connect Your Mining Software to the Pool
Difficulty
Stratum server URL
btg.pool.minergate.com
Port
3257
Username
Your email
Password
None
Username is an email address of your existing MinerGate account. The password is not required. No MinerGate account yet? Pass a short registration.
Bitcoin Gold Mining Profitability Calculator
Hashrate
3.7kH/s
Electricity Cost
0.03$
Pool fee
1%
Hardware Cost
2200$
Estimated Year Profit with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080Ti × 5