Archive for the ‘Crypto Coins’ Category

Devcoin (DVC) SHA-256 based cryptocoin

26, Jan 2014

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Devcoin is an ethically inspired cryptocurrency created in 2011 to support open source projects by programmers, hardware developers, writers, musicians, painters, graphic artists and filmmakers worldwide. Devcoin is one of the longest running blockchain based digital currencies. Devcoins can be merge mined with Bitcoin, earned by developing, writing or completing tasks known as bounties, or purchased on various exchanges. It is a SHA-256 cryptocoin and can be mined with specialized Bitcoin ASIC mining hardware.

Website
http://devcoin.org/

Block Explorer / Crawler
http://d.evco.in/abe/chain/DeVCoin

SPECIFICATIONS

  • SHA-256 Algo
  • Merged mined with Bitcoin
  • Retarget every 1 day
  • 50,000 coins per block which 90% go to developers
  • 21 billion total coins

DOWNLOADS
Windows
Mac
Linux

Source Code
at Gitorious

PORTS

  • RPC Port: 53333
  • RPC Port: 63333

POOLS
http://dem.coin-pool.org/
http://mmpool.bitparking.com/pool

EXCHANGES
– Bter

Reddcoin (RDD) Scrypt-based alternative cryptocoin

25, Jan 2014

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Reddcoin (RDD) is the social currency that enriches people’s social lives and makes digital currency easy for the general public. Reddcoin achieves this by integrating a digital currency platform seamlessly with all major social networks to make the process of sending and receiving money fun and rewarding for everyone. Redddcoin Proof of Stake Velocity is an innovative algorithm that encourages both ownership (Stake) and activity (Velocity). PoSV solves issues in traditional PoW & PoS algorithms and eliminate wasteful consumption of electricity for mining. Reddcoin decentralized Tip Platform allows people to seamlessly send & receive digital currency on Social Networks. Reddcoin Redd-ID is a unique service provided at the blockchain level which allows a user to associate a username with rich information including public keys and social network identities. Reddcoin Broadcast provides powerful crowd-sourced marketing tools to businesses and steady Reddcoin income to individuals based on their social influence level.

Website:
– https://www.reddcoin.com/

Block Explorer:
– http://live.reddcoin.com/

Coin Specifications

  • Algorithm: Proof-of-Stake-Velocity
  • Total Supply: ~27 billion RDD at the end of PoW
  • Interest rate: 5% inflation yearly
  • Min Age: 8 hours, Max age 45 days
  • Block Time: 60 Seconds
  • Difficulty Retarget: Every block using Kimoto’s gravity well

Wallet:
– Windows
– Linux
– Mac OS

Source Code:
– at GitHub

Ports:
– RPC Port: 45443

Mining Pools:
No mining pools available, the coin is now PoS only.

Coin Exchanges:
– Bittrex
– Crex
– Yobit

Protoshares (PTS) Alternative Cryptocurrency

25, Jan 2014

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ProtoShares (PTS) now called Bitshares-PTS is an alternative cryptocoin that uses a new Momentum Proof of Work (POW) algorithm that is designed to be GPU and ASIC resistant, so you can only mine them for now by using the processor (CPU). There was even a $5000 USD bounty set by the developers of PTS for anyone who can prove it is vulnerable to GPUs or ASICs, so it is only CPU mining for quite a while for these. However there are already a few implementations taking advantage of Nvidia’s CUDA architecture as well as for OpenCL for AMD GPUs, though we have not yet tested these.

THe idea to use CPUs for mining is a good one if you are already mining with GPUs for scrypt-based coins and want to be able to fully utilize your mining hardware since the load on the CPU is minimal when mining LTC or other scrypt altcoins. When talking about CPU mining the first alternative crypto that comes to mind is the Primecoin and then the Protoshares, we’ve already tested what you can expect from a day of mining XPM and we are soon going to report on our 24 hour PTS mining results. Just don’t expect to have too high profit from PTS mining at the moment, it is just some extra that you can get out of the hardware you probably already own.

Protoshares (PTS) mining pools:
http://ypool.net
http://pts.1gh.com/
http://ptsweb.beeeeer.org/
http://pts.rpool.net/
http://ptspool.com/

Protoshares (PTS) exchanges:
– Binance
– CoinEgg
– Gateio
– Crex


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