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Milestone10/24/2017

#491,407

Bitcoin Gold fork block

Mined
10/24/2017, 1:17:35 AM
Reward
12.5 BTC
Fees
0.15 BTC
Difficulty
1,347,804,955,235.29
Block hash

0000000000000000000593ba1eb2dca174933eca739d0f018a634e546eecc000000000000

00000000000000000005…e546eecc000000000000

Block 491,407 was the fork point for Bitcoin Gold, which changed Bitcoin's SHA-256 mining algorithm to Equihash. The project aimed to return mining to GPUs but suffered from a pre-mine controversy, poor exchange support, and eventual 51% attacks.

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