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Lithium (LIT) Added to BlakeCoin Merged Mining

5, Oct 2014

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The Blake-256 based crypto currencies merged mining now has another new addition, the new coin is called Lithium (LIT), bringing the total number of merged mined coins to 7 (including BlakeCoin). LIT is still pretty new coin and is not yet available for trade on an exchange, but will most likely soon appear on exchanges that support other Blake-256 coins. If you still haven’t tried merged mining for BLC + 6 other Blake-256 coins, then you might want to check things out. Also we already have a new NOMP-based merged mining pool available as well as a ccMiner fork with Blake algorithm support since the last time we have covered merged mining for this crypto algorithm.

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
– ccMiner with Blake-256 support for Nvidia
– CudaMiner with Blake-256 support for Nvidia

Pools for Merged Mining of Blake-256 coins:
– http://eu3.blakecoin.com/
– http://ny2.blakecoin.com/
– http://la1.blakecoin.com/
– http://cg1.blakecoin.com/

Exchanges for trading Blake-256 coins:
– Atomic Trade

BitSwift (SWIFT) POS Alternative Cryptocoin

4, Oct 2014

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BitSwift (SWIFT) bridges the vital gap between business and blockchain. BitSwift is the worlds first decentralized productivity profitability protocol built on top of blockchain and targeted specifically for business. The protocol is open source and defines the incorruptible laws of the network which are distributed across each node cooperating within the BitSwift ecosystem. The BitSwift network blends together the goals of the network with the needs of its users to ensure a productive yet, pleasant, and profitable end user experience. BitSwift indirectly rewards its users for using its services and provides incentive to do so. Instead of financing BitSwift own growth through debt, BitSwift will finance itself and enrich its users simultaneously with the collective participation of the nodes on the network. Bitswift (SWIFT) is a proof of stake and proof of work alternative crypto currency. The proof of stake interest rate is set to 3% annually.

Website:
– http://bitswift.io/

Block Explorer:
– https://chainz.cryptoid.info/swift/

Coin Specifications

  • 100% Proof of Stake (PoS)
  • Total money supply: 4 Million SWIFT
  • Difficulty Adjustment: 1 block
  • 3% POS Interest per Year
  • 4 Hour minimum stake age
  • Max Stake Age 20 Days

Wallet:
– Windows
– Mac OS

Source Code:
– at GitHub

Ports:
– RPC Port: 21137
– P2P Port: 21138

Mining Pools:
Not available, the coins is PoS only.

Coin Exchanges:
– Bittrex
– BTER

GaiaCoin (GAIA) POS Alternative Cryptocoin

3, Oct 2014

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Gaia coin (GAIA) offers the security and reliability of the blockchain with an Extensible, Skinnable, Modular platform design capabilities to implement distributed markets and services. While the GAIA block chain operates in the same methodology of the traditional block chain, the GAIA Platform removed the limitations of the QT wallet, and replaced it with an entirely new concept. Coin daemon operates as an OS service accessible through any web browser, this is a new ecosystem developed around the coin daemon to provide expanded set of services and remove limitations of the block chain. The coin daemon is used by the developers only as tool that maintains the blockchain and revert focus on the creation of a platform that supports the e-commerce and development part of the currency. The block chain acts to maintain the integrity of the network, while the Platform acts to integrate a wide range of services previously not easily supported.

Website:
– http://gaiaplatform.com/

Block Explorer:
– http://www.gaiaplatform.com/explorer/

Coin Specifications

  • 100% PoS coin, now PoW mining
  • Total coins: 100 million (max coins sold with ICO)
  • Annual interest rate: 5%
  • Block time: 60 seconds
  • Min transaction fee: 0.001 GAIA
  • Confirmations: 10, maturity: 240
  • Min stake age: 4 hours, no max age
  • Difficulty retarget: every block

Wallet:
– Windows
– Linux
– Mac OS

Source Code:
– at GitHub

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

Coin Exchanges:
– Bittrex
– Bleutrade


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