The stated purpose of the hard fork is to make mining on commonly available graphics cards economically viable.

This type of attack makes it possible to manipulate the blockchain ledger on which transactions are recorded, and to spend the same digital coins more than once.

Bitcoin Gold was later delisted from Bittrex, after the team refused to help pay some damages.

[8][non-primary source needed] Bitcoin Gold suffered from 51% attacks again in January 2020.

[9] In July 2020, the version 0.17.2 was released as an emergency update in order to elude a long attack chain originated a few days before.