90.4% mineable
23,500,000 BTGS issued through proof of work. ASIC SHA-256 miners. Pools listed by the project include MinorPool, FewBit, Bitofsin, Mining4People, and btgs.miningcrypto.online.
BTGS · COMMUNITYSHA-256 · Layer 1 · announced April 2026
Hard money.
Plain SHA-256.
BitcoinGold (BTGS) is a separate proof-of-work chain built on a Bitcoin Core-style codebase. It is not the 2017 Bitcoin Gold fork (BTG).
Network specs
Algorithm
SHA-256
Block time
10 min
Reward
50 BTGS
Max supply
26,000,000
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Halving | Every 110,000 blocks (~2 years) |
| Difficulty retarget | Every 1,008 blocks |
| Coinbase maturity | 100 confirmations |
| P2P / RPC | 18888 / 18881 |
| Claimed features | Taproot, Schnorr, BIP324 P2P encryption, BGC-20 inscriptions |
| Address style | bcg1 bech32 and legacy G prefix |
Supply split
4.7% reserve
1,230,000 BTGS held as an ecosystem reserve for R&D, liquidity, and seed infrastructure.
4.8% burn claim
1,270,000 BTGS the team says were sent to a dead address. Treat that as a premine-then-burn, not coins that never existed.