For β ∈ (1, 2] the β-transformation T β : [0, 1) → [0, 1) is defined by T β (x) = βx (mod 1). For t ∈ [0, 1) let K β (t) be the survivor set of T β with hole (0, t) given byfor all n ≥ 0 . In this paper we characterise the bifurcation set E β of all parameters t ∈ [0, 1) for which the set valued function t → K β (t) is not locally constant. We show that E β is a Lebesgue null set of full Hausdorff dimension for all β ∈ (1, 2). We prove that for Lebesgue almost every β ∈ (1, 2) the bifurcation set E β contains both infinitely many isolated and accumulation points arbitrarily close to zero. On the other hand, we show that the set of β ∈ (1, 2) for which E β contains no isolated points has zero Hausdorff dimension. These results contrast with the situation for E 2 , the bifurcation set of the doubling map. Finally, we give for each β ∈ (1, 2) a lower and upper bound for the value τ β , such that the Hausdorff dimension of K β (t) is positive if and only if t < τ β . We show that τ β ≤ 1 − 1 β for all β ∈ (1, 2).Urbański proved that the function t → h top (g|K g (t)) is a Devil's staircase, where h top denotes the topological entropy.Motivated by the work of Urbański, we consider this situation for the β-transformation. Given β ∈ (1, 2], the β-transformation T β : [0, 1) → [0, 1) is defined by T β (x) = βx