BitGold Project

What is BitGold?

BitGold [BGD] is an new digital gold that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. BitGold uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. BitGold is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency. see Features and RoadMaps.

For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the BitGold software, see https://bintray.bitbaba.com/bintray/bitgold, or read the bitgold design and bitcoin original whitepaper.

License

BitGold[BGD] is released under the terms of the MIT license.

See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Downloads

• Win32 Wallet
• Ubuntu Wallet
• Mac Wallet
• pre-built miner for windows

Services

• Pool

• source of Miner

• Explorer

• Exchange1

• Exchange2

Features

• 5 minutes per block
• 2-Mega-bytes serialized block size(2x of bitcoin core)
• 42,000,000 coins in PoW stage
• Seg-Witness
• GoldHash as PoW (now SHA256Q, asic-resistant)
• Miner-inside GUI wallet

Roadmaps

• Support chainstate retrieving in script stack machine

  • nonceOf(height) example: use nonce to gamble
  • hashOf(height)
  • timeOf(height)

• Support non-standard sub-script of P2SH

• Support state storage of non-utxo data

• Support Tx comments(e.g. "pay for coffe")

• Support Instant Messenaging Chat

• Support Mounting of Turing-complete VM for smart contract

Mining

• Pool

./minerd --algo=sha256q \
         --threads=1 \
         --url=stratum+tcp://pool.bitbaba.com:3333 \
         --no-getwork \
         --no-gbt \
         --user=GZmKHp12bDUiDCkvvzyZzytwRcNaW3viDM \
         --pass=x \
         --debug \
         --protocol-dump

• GBT(GetBlockTemplate) on remote rpc

./minerd --algo=sha256q \
	 --threads=1 \
	 --coinbase-sig="bitbaba" \
	 --coinbase-addr=GZmKHp12bDUiDCkvvzyZzytwRcNaW3viDM \
	 --url=http://api.bitbaba.com/ \
	 --no-getwork \
	 --user=rpcuser \
	 --pass=rpcpassword \
	 --debug \
	 --protocol-dump

• Solo-Mining Locally

mine.sh

while true; 
    do ./bitgold-cli generatetoaddress 1 GZmKHp12bDUiDCkvvzyZzytwRcNaW3viDM 10000000; 
done

mine.bat

@echo off
:restart

echo minging...

bitgold-cli generatetoaddress 1 GZmKHp12bDUiDCkvvzyZzytwRcNaW3viDM 10000000

ping -w 1 -n 5 1.0.0.1

goto :restart

Note: remember to configure bitgold.conf as following:

server=1
rpcuser=rpcuser
rpcpassword=rpcpassword

Building from sources

As you known, the .travis.yml is used for automated building. Here is a localized script called travis.sh, which can be used to build bitgold on your local laptop.

Example Usage:

$>mkdir -p ~/home/user1/tarballs; \
$>ln -s ~/home/user1/tarballs depends/sources; \
$>mkdir -p depends/sdk-sources depends/SDKs; \
$>sudo apt-get update; \
$>sh travis.sh;

Note: ~/home/user1/tarballs is used to cache locale source tarballs of depends.