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Release Notes v0.17.2

Edward Iskra edited this page Jul 27, 2020 · 2 revisions

BTG / Bitcoin Gold Core version 0.17.2

Binaries and source code available from:

<https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU/releases/tag/v0.17.2>

This emergency security update, released on July 2nd, 2020, introduced a checkpoint at publicly-known honest block 000000059ec8884fa4fbbdbe46c09cfb4ecba281dfa2351a05084e817c1200ae, height 640650. All major mining pools and exchanges adopted this update.

On July 10th, a 1300 block attack chain was released on the BTG network. It was dated back to July 1st, before the checkpoint, and was subsequently rejected by the network.

For upgrade instructions and release notes, please refer to Release Notes v0.17.1.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker on GitHub:

https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU/issues