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Darkcoin (DRK) X11 alternative cryptocoin, Now DASH (DASH)

20, Feb 2014

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DarkCoin (DRK), now renamed to DASH, aims to be the first privacy-centric cryptographic currency with fully encrypted transactions and anonymous block transactions. These features are a work on progress and will be released in stages in the near future. DarkCoin (DRK) uses a specialized CPU and GPU miners, so you will need to download these in order to be able to mine this new crypto, download links are available below.

DarkCoin uses a new chained hashing algorithm approach, with many new scientific hashing algorithms for the proof-of-work. This is so that the processing distribution is fair and coins will be distributed in much the same way Bitcoins were originally. ASICs will be much more difficult to make for these algorithms and will take years, so GPU mining should be the main solution for mining these coins.

Website
– http://www.darkcoin.io/

Block Explorer / Crawler
– http://explorer.darkcoin.io/chain/DarkCoin

SPECIFICATIONS

  • 0.00000% Pre-mined
  • Super secure hashing algorithm: X11 – 11 rounds of scientific hashing functions (blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein, luffa, cubehash, shavite, simd, echo)
  • Block reward is controlled by moore’s law: (11111 / (((Difficulty+51)/6) ^ 2))
  • CPU mining initially, now also GPU mining
  • Block generation: 2.5 minutes
  • Difficulty Retargets using Kimoto Gravity Well
  • 84 Million Coins Max
  • Block reward halves every year
  • Encrypted transaction network: Work In Progress
  • Anonymous blockchain using coinjoin technology: Work In Progress

DOWNLOADS
– Online Wallet
– Windows
– Mac

Source Code
– at GitHub

GPU MINERS
– sgminer for AMD GPUs
– ccMiner for Nvidia GPUs

POOLS
hhttp://www.drkpool.com
https://www2.coinmine.pl/drk/
http://pool.darkcoin.io/
http://cpu-pool.net/drk/
http://darkcoin.miningpoolhub.com/
http://dark.suchpool.pw/
http://dark.v2.dedicatedpool.com/

EXCHANGES
– Binance
– Bittrex
– HitBTC
– Livecoin
– Yobit
– Gateio
– Citex
– Crex
– Graviex
– Stex
– Txbit

YACoin (YAC) Scrypt-jane based cryptocoin

19, Feb 2014

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YACoin (YAC) is robust, secure and reliable open source software that is run by a community of volunteers. Anyone is welcome to add to YACoin, whether by contributing code, or if that’s not your thing, translations, how-to’s or anything else you can think of to benefit YAC. YACoin was created in May of 2013 and was the first to introduce the N parameter of Scrypt.

Website
– http://yacoin.org/

Block Explorer / Crawler
– https://explorer.yacoin.org/

Specifications

  • Scrypt-jane Algorithm
  • Block reward is 25 coins and depends on difficulty
  • Dynamic re-targeting
  • Block target time 1 minute
  • 2 billion total coins
  • Proof-of-work

DOWNLOADS
– Windows

Source Code
– at GitHub

POOLS
http://yac.coinmine.pl/
http://yac.ltcoin.net/
https://www2.coinmine.pl/yacp/
http://smallcoin.org/

EXCHANGES
– Yobit
– Bter

Blakecoin (BLC) Blake-256 alternative cryptocoin

17, Feb 2014

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Blakecoin is a experimental cryptographic digital currency that enables payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Blakecoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing coins are carried out collectively by the network.

Blakecoin (BLC) uses Blake-256 (optimized) faster than Scrypt, SHA-256D and Keccak algorithm and thus provides much faster hashrate from the same hardware as compared to the other alternatives. The algorithm was written as a candidate for SHA-3, based on round one candidate code from the Sphlib 2.1 library and reduced the round function to 8 rounds. BLC can currently be mined with both CPU, GPU and FPGA, though GPU mining is the best option at the moment for AMD graphics card owners. Blakecoin (BLC) requires a special miner software!

The Blake-256 algorithm hash rate is just under 3x faster on the GPU and just over 2x on the FPGA compared with Bitcoin. So for example with a Radeon R9 280X you can expect to get a hashrate of about 2-2.5 GH/s or more when mining Blackecoin. The reward for mining Blakecoin does Not decrease over time it only increases with block height and difficulty. Block reward is 25 coin + inflation (square root of (difficulty * block height)) and the total of 7 Billion coins will be mined.

Website
– http://www.blakecoin.org/

Block Explorer / Crawler
– http://blc.cryptocoinexplorer.com/

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Blake-256 (optimized) Algo, faster than Scrypt and SHA-256D
  • Block reward is 25 coin + inflation (square root of (difficulty * block height))
  • No reduction of block reward
  • Cap in place to reduce the difficulty jumps upwards
  • Block target time is 3 minutes and retargets every 20 blocks
  • Total of 7 Billion coins
  • Block maturity 120 (+20 buffer 140 Total)

DOWNLOADS
– Windows
– Linux
– Mac

Blake-256 Algorithm GPU miners:
– Cgminer 3.7.2 with Blake-256 support for AMD
– Cgminer 3.1.1 with Blake-256 support for AMD
– CudaMiner with Blake-256 support for Nvidia
– ccMiner with Blake-256 support for Nvidia

Source Code
– at GitHub

PORTS

  • RPC Port: 8772

POOLS
– http://cg1.blakecoin.com/
– http://eu3.blakecoin.com/
– http://ny2.blakecoin.com/
– http://la1.blakecoin.com/

EXCHANGES
– Atomic Trade


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