A new cryptocurrency called bitcoin gold (BTG) officially separated from the bitcoin blockchain this morning – and the project's website has been under denial-of-service attacks ever since.
As detailed in CoinDesk's explainer, BTG now plans to distribute free cryptocurrency in such a way that it is available to anyone holding bitcoin at the time of the fork.
Not long after this process initiated, however, the developer team began reporting challenges:
"Massive DDoS attack on our cloud site. 10M requests per minute. We are working with the providers to ban all the IPs. We will be up soon!"
But hours later, it seems like the website is still being bombarded, preventing those who wish to keep track of the cryptocurrency's progress. Complicating matters is that the new blockchain is not yet public, and block explorers or other common tracking tools have yet to be released.
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