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Make Sure to Update Your Litecoin Wallet to The Latest v0.8.7.4-beta

4, Jan 2015

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There haven’t been a lot of good news for Litecoin (LTC) lately with ASIC manufacturers cancelling the development of new mining hardware and the exchange rate going down, hitting even below $2 USD briefly today. But LTC is still one of the most popular alternative crypto coins and will most likely continue to be, even though some people think it is doomed. The situation with Bitcoin is not that great lately either, especially with the exchange rate also down like is the case with Litecoin, but we expect things to slowly start recovering in 2015. There is a change for Litecoin that is going to come in a few days – permanent lock of the v2 block type at block 710000 – something that should happen around 9th of January and you need to make sure that you have the latest wallet installed. The Litecoin v0.8.7.4-beta has been available for a few months, but still a lot of people might not have updated to that version and you need to make sure you are using it to avoid having issues with the LTC in a few days. Don’t wait for the last day if you still haven’t updated, although it is more important that pool operators update their wallets if they have not done so yet. Later this year we are also going to see the first blow reward halving for Litecoin that is expected to happen at block 840000 that should be reached at around August-September time.

– To download the latest Litecoin wallet v0.8.7.4-beta software for your OS…

GlobalBoost (BSTY) Yescrypt-based alternative cryptocoin

15, Dec 2014

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GlobalBoost-Y (BSTY) is the result of some of the our military veterans, GlobalBoost employees, contractors, and supporters that put our minds together to create a digital currency that will gain and hold value. We feel that BST is a good payment system (quick delivery & confirmation), and we continue to build products & services around the platform. We wanted more though, something more than a just a payment system. We wanted something that was rare, and valuable. We wanted a coin that is more secure, and resistant to the vulnerabilities of ASIC & GPU mining. BSTY brings a completely new algorithm to the digital currency scene, and combines it with our real products, real company, and visible & accountable leadership. We aim to improve the acceptance of digital money, providing a safe & attractive investment using Yescrypt as our POW.

Website:
– http://globalboost-y.com/

Block Explorer:
– https://explorer.globalboo.st/
– http://bstyexplorer.globalboost.info/

Coin Specifications

  • Yescrypt Algorithm
  • Total 24 Million BSTY Coins
  • Block Reward 347 BSTY Changes to 50 BSTY at block 17k
  • 10 Minute Block Times
  • Dark Gravity Wave for difficulty readjustment

Wallet:
– Windows
– Mac OS

Source Code:
– at GitHub

Ports:
– RPC Port: 8225
– P2P Port: 8226

Mining Pools:
– http://p2pool.e-pool.net:8961/static/
– http://bsty.hashlink.eu/
– https://www.suchpool.pw/bsty/

Coin Exchanges:
– Graviex
– Yobit

VertCoin (VTC) Pools With The New Lyra2RE Algorithm

13, Dec 2014

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It was anticipated that VertCoin (VTC) will hardfork to the new Lyra2RE algorithm at around 16th this month at block 208301, however we have reached the fork a bit earlier. So if you are mining VertCoin you should switch to the new Lyra2RE GPU miners and to pools that have already switched to the new algorithm. Some people have anticipated that after the fork the price of VTC will increase, but this did not happen as currently VertCoin is quite profitable to mine and sell directly and apparently a lot of people are doing exactly this resulting in exchange rate dropping. This is just the first day after the fork, so we should wait and see how the Lyra2RE fork will affect VTC – will it help the coin or on the contrary.

VTC mining polls with Lyra2RE support:
– Verters Pool
– SimpleMulti
– Coinotron
– CoinMine VTC
– Hashlink VTC
– CrunchPool VTC
– P2PPool VTC


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