Bitcoin Gold reaches nine years since its 2017 split from Bitcoin

Nine years after the split

Bitcoin Gold marked nine years since its launch on 12 November 2026, according to a report by Bitcoin Block. The project began in 2017 as a hard fork of Bitcoin, meaning it copied the Bitcoin chain and continued under separate rules.

The stated aim was to reverse the growing concentration of Bitcoin mining in specialised hardware. Bitcoin Block writes that the Bitcoin network is now dominated by ASIC machines, chips built only to mine BTC. Bitcoin Gold was meant to give a wider group of participants a way to mine.

What the report says about the legacy

The report frames the project's history around individual autonomy: if an ordinary person can take part in creating and validating a digital currency, that person depends less on large operators. It does not give figures on Bitcoin Gold's hashrate, price or miner count.

Bitcoin Block presents the anniversary as a point for looking at how fork projects innovate and where they struggle. It names no specific technical outcome and does not say whether mining on Bitcoin Gold is more widely distributed today than on Bitcoin.

What is not established

The report does not compare mining concentration on the two networks with data, and it does not address how Bitcoin Gold's mining has developed since 2017. Those questions stay open in the text.