Steps (STEPS) alternative cryptocoin

8 Sep
2015

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Steps (STEPS) is a peer-to-peer digital currency that paves the way to a new and intelligent way of looking at an altcoin. We are a dedicated team and want to enhance the Cryptoshere in many ways. In the coming days and months the official website will evolve, including the launch of a new forum. Steps is a 100% PoS (Proof of Stake) coin, meaning that there will be no mining of coins, only staking. Interestingly enough the initial PoS block reward is growing until it reaches block 60100 and then it drops to 1% annual interest rate.

Website:
– https://altcoinsteps.com/

Block Explorer:
– http://chain.altcoinsteps.com/

Coin Specifications

  • 100% PoS (Proof of Stake)
  • Total Supply: 19,000,000 STEPS
  • PoS Block reward: currently 190 STEPS, after block 60100 1% annual rate
  • Block Time: 5 minutes
  • Minimum Staking Age: 24 hours
  • Maximum Staking Age: 180 days

Wallet:
– Windows
– Mac OS
– Android

Source Code:
– at GitHub

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

Coin Exchanges:
– Bittrex
– Bleutrade
– Yobit

New Faster NiceHash Axiom CPU Miner Launcher

8 Sep
2015

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NiceHash has released an updated version of their Axiom CPU Miner Launcher that provides a simple and easy GUI for running the optimized cpuminer-multi fork (source). The new releases apparently includes optimizations from sandor111 that further increases the performance for mining Axiom on CPU. Compared to the previous version from about a month ago we are seeing about 90% increase in performance on an Intel Core i7 5820K processor and apparently AVX2-capable CPUs seem to have the highest performance increase, though older processors will also get increased hashrate. So if you are mining Axiom on CPU you might want to try the updated miner with GUI to ease the mining on NiceHash and get paid directly in Bitcoin.

– To download the latest Windows binaries of the optimized cpuminer and launcher with Axiom algorithm support…

Bitcoin Photo Contest by bit4coin

8 Sep
2015

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The European based portal for buying Bitcoins bit4coin is currently running an interesting Bitcoin Photo Contest where you can win up to 1000 Euro as a reward for the first place, 500 Euro for the second and 250 Euro for the third. All you have to do to take part in the contest is to submit a Bitcoin themed photo made by you. The idea is to show interesting, original photographs and artwork by and for the bitcoin community. Examples could be photographs of people using bitcoin, bitcoin spottings at interesting places, or bitcoin paintings. There is no limit to your creativity, as long as it has something to do with bitcoin. The contest is open for submissions at any time until October 15th, 2015. Jury members cast votes until October 21st, and winners will be announced right after.

– For additional information about the Bitcoin Photo Contest ran by bit4coin…

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