Bitcoin is a good coin and would be better than some Altcoins. And you can get…
Bitcoin is a good coin and would be better than some Altcoins. And you can get Bitcoin Gold through freewallet.org and can be installed as phone app.
Pros
Through BTG, you won’t need expensive, enterprise-quality mining equipment to profitably mine a BTC-like chain. GPU mining should, in theory, have a decentralizing effect.
Cons
Starts from scratch in terms of merchant adoption.