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The fact that Bitcoin Gold tries to do something different by using equihash, and doing it properly by clearly stating they aren't Bitcoin (BTC) but Bitcoin Gold (BTG) and adds proper replay protection, makes it an honest hardfork.
.... and at the same time having a huge amount of coins premined makes it a very dishonest fork.
in any case i am very interested to see how this is going to work though. i really hope it gains some traction for the sake of its mining, i love to see how they will handle things in the future, for example will it remain GPU mineable. some people say there is nothing called "ASIC resistance" and they suggest adding deadlines now for change of mining algorithms to prevent it.
Most altcoins get to claim they're ASIC-resistant because it's simply not worth the hardware manufacturers' time or money to develop a chip specifically for an algorithm for coins where the market cap doesn't even appear on the radar. If BTG is somehow a success, the ASIC resistance won't last long and they'll have to switch algo more often. If no one gives a shit about BTG, it can claim ASIC resistance for the rest of all time, heh.
And the 1600 block (20000 BTG) premine probably doesn't get them off to the best start in terms of people actually using the coin long term and developing an economy around it. So they can probably claim ASIC resistance for quite a while.
