'Not a cheaper Bitcoin' — Bitcoin Gold soars 173% as traders may be buying th...

'Not a cheaper Bitcoin' — Bitcoin Gold soars 173% as traders may be buying th...

Investors could be mistakenly linking the bank with the 2017 Bitcoin hard fork, causing a spike in price and trading action. A long-forgotten Bitcoin (BTC) hard fork has surged almost 200% in a week — simply because traders are buying the wrong altcoin.Bitcoin Gold (BTG), a relic from the 2017 forking season, traded at $113 on April 9 — the highest price since February 2018 — after 30% daily gains as trading volumes topped $250 million. Bitcoin Gold piggybacks to 173% weekly gainsA curious contrast to an otherwise lackluster cryptocurrency market, Bitcoin Gold’s success appears to be not....


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