Today, Bitcoin Gold has finally forked! Originally based on the Equihash algo, Bitcoin Gold has transited to Equihash-BTG. The goal is to make Bitcoin Gold more ASIC-resistant – the new algorithm requires 17 times the amount of memory than Equihash, which means that any existent Equihash ASICs will not be able to mine Bitcoin Gold.

According to the devs, this steep increase in memory requirements will also make it harder and pricier for ASIC manufacturers to create ASICs for Equihash-BTG in the future. Besides, the improved DAA will have a better response to hashrate swings.

The fork has not spawned a new currency. We don’t have to exchange our Bitcoin Gold tokens or anything. The only thing we have to do is to upgrade our wallet and mining software.

In this guide, I will walk you though the steps of setting up the new software required for mining, holding and trading Bitcoin Gold. Let’s get started!

Best mining hardware for Bitcoin Gold

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How to mine Bitcoin Gold With Nvidia GPU

Nvidia GTX Equihash-BTG Mining Hashrate Benchmarks

GTX 1050 Ti 4GB

• Hashrate: 17 Sol/s
• Clocks +100/+750
• Power Limit 100
• full review

GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Bitcoin Gold Equihash-BGT Mining Hashrate

Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Mining Rig Ravencoin Mining Hashrate

GTX 1060 3GB

MSI GAMING GTX 1060 3GB OC

• Hashrate: 23-26 Sol/s
• Clocks +100/+750
• Power Limit 80
• full review

GTX 1060 3GB Bitcoin Gold Equihash-BGT Mining Hashrate

MSI GTX 1060 3GB Mining Rig Ravencoin Mining Hashrate

GTX 1060 6GB

Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gaming

• Hashrate: 27 Sol/s
• Clocks +150/+750
• Power Limit 80
• full review

GTX 1060 6GB Bitcoin Gold Equihash-BTG Mining Hashrate

Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB G1 Gaming Mining Rig Ravencoin Mining Hashrate

GTX 1070 8GB

Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming

• Hashrate: 36 Sol/s
• Clocks +100/+650
• Power Limit 75
• full review

GTX 1070 8GB Bitcoin Gold Equihash-BTG Mining Hashrate

Gigabyte GTX 1070 8GB G1 Gaming Mining Rig Ravencoin Mining Hashrate

GTX 1070 Ti 8GB

Gigabyte GTX 1070 Ti 8G

• Hashrate: 39 Sol/s
• Clocks +150/+750
• Power Limit 75
• full review

GTX 1070 Ti Bitcoin Gold Equihash-BTG Mining Hashrate

Gigabyte GTX 1070 8GB G1 Gaming Mining Rig Ravencoin Mining Hashrate

GTX 1080 8GB

MSI Gaming GTX 1080 8GB

• Hashrate: TBA
• Clocks TBA
• Power Limit TBA
• full review

MSI GTX 1080 Luxcoin PHI2 Mining Hashrate

MSI GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Mining Rig Ravencoin Mining Hashrate

GTX 1080 Ti 8GB

MSI GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GAMING X

• Hashrate: 55 Sol/s
• Clocks +150/+750
• Power Limit 70
• full review

Gigabyte GTX 1080 Ti Ravencoin X16R Mining Hashrate Overclock

MSI GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Mining Rig Ravencoin Mining Hashrate

GTX P104-100

Colorful P104-100 4G

• Hashrate: 37 Sol/s
• Clocks +100/+750
• Power Limit 75
• full review

GTX P104-100 Bitcoin Gold Equihash-BTG Mining Hashrate

gigabyte p104-100 4gb mining video card

GTX P106-100

INNO3D P106-100 Mining 6Gb Samsung

• Hashrate: 25 Sol/s
• Clocks +100/+750
• Power Limit 75
• full review

GTX P106-100 Bitcoin Gold Equihash-BTG Mining Hashrate

ASUS P106-100 6GB Mining Edition

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How to mine Bitcoin Gold with AMD GPU

In Conclusion

I hope this tutorial helped you to painlessly set up your software for mining and trading the new BTG. The new algorithm is harder to mine, which is why, in order to compensate that, developers have lowered the difficulty to 1/100th of what it was before.

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I’m pretty sure most of you wonder what is the best GPU to mine Bitcoin Gold and which components should you use to create the mining rig for it. I’ve decided to create this quick guide to answer those questions.

As you probably know, Bitcoin Gold is running on Equihash algorithm – the same that is behind popular coins such as ZCash, Zclassic, Zencash, Hush, Komodo etc. This means that Nvidia cards are definitely the best choice to mine BGold. It is no rocket science that GTX video cards performs much better than AMD when mining Equihash algorithm.

Here are the latest updates by the devs:

ETA: Oct 29: Adopt BTG mining protocol for pool server

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In this tutorial, you will find the following:

I have already reviewed some great GTX cards and I’ve build few rigs with those. You can check the reviews here:

Best Mining Rig Hardware For Bitcoin Gold

Best GPU to mine Bitcoin Gold

Mining Motherboard +  CPU, RAM, SSD Combo

PSU – Power Supply Unit

USB Risers

Mining Rig Frame

1stMR B Stackable

• Motherboard standoffs
• Designed to be assembled easily
• Supports up to 6/8/12 GPUs & 2 power supplies
• Any 2,5″ hard disks or SSD drives, any power supplies
• Dimensions: – L545 xW345 x H355mm
• Stackable

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OS

I recommend the following:

Bitcoin Gold Miners

Here is a list with the best mining software that can be used to mine Bitcoin Gold:

Pool Mining

There are some good pools already waiting to kick in, but in this tutorial i will use the official one which is pool.gold

How to mine Bitcoin Gold on Winodws:

In this tutorial i will use Claymore’s BTF Miner

NOTE: This is on TESTNET, currently the devs are testing the network.

Mainnet launched

This guide will be updated once mining will be available ion MAINNET for Bitcoin Gold!

UPDATE November 13, 2017:

Mainnet launched

You can use the same config settings as on testnet (check above).

RX 470 4GB Bitcoin Gold Mining Hashrate

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 Bitcoin Gold Mining Hashrate

• Download EWBF Cuda Miner 0.3.4b BTG
• Extract the contents
• Edit start.bat file by adding your wallet and worker name
• Save, close, run
• Overclock your cards

gigabyte gtx 1070 bitcoin gold mining hashrate 1

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gigabyte gtx 1070 bitcoin gold mining hashrate 3

gigabyte gtx 1070 bitcoin gold mining hashrate overclocked

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