Hack history / 2020 / Hack or exploit
Bitcoin Gold
Hack or exploit on Jul 10, 2020 · 51% attack
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
undisclosed
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
not ranked
collapses, frauds and later news are not ranked
What happened
The team that developed Bitcoin Gold (BTG), a bifurcated project, has announced a 51% attack. According to the official disclosure, THE BTG network has been hit by 51% attacks lasting nearly 10 days. However, on July 2, the BTG team had issued an attack alert to the mine pool and the exchange and issued version 0.17.2, which included checkpoints at 640,650 blocks. The BTG team reminds all BTG Core nodes to upgrade to version 0.17.2.
Details
- Date
- Jul 10, 2020
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- 51% attack
- How in
- Other
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Bitcoin Gold hack, Jul 10, 2020: undisclosed lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht037a179621/ (data as of 2026-10-31).