Bitcoin Gold (BTG), the controversial cryptocurrency that launched to little fanfare with the idealistic goal of “making bitcoin decentralized again” by creating an ASIC-resilient mining ecosystem, wherein the gap between GPU/CPU mining and ASIC mining is smaller, keeps making headlines. This week a BTG developer, Martin Kuvandzhiev, allegedly hid a 0.5% fee into a BTG mining pool, sending the funds directly to his wallet.
According to rumors on Bitcointalk, the developer added a 0.5% mining fee to his pool that transfers funds directly to his wallet, as the whole cryptocurrency’s known premine of 8,000 blocks could’ve been kept by BTG creator Jack Liao.
Reports further suggest some mining pools removed the code as it was publicly available. On the Bitocintalk forums, one user speculates:
“This explains why so many blocks found didn’t show up as paid to the finder, also why Suprnova’s chain was out of sync, perhaps Suprnova found this code removed it, and that pissed off dev-team,”
