BitcoinDark (BTCD) SHA256-based alternative cryptocoin

14 Jul
2014

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BitcoinDark (BTCD) is a disrupting crypto currency platform that seeks to overcome many of the disadvantages inherent to the current world of finance. In addition: we firmly believe that everyone should be free to transact privately, and without the costs imposed by the gatekeepers of the world’s currencies and markets. The BitcoinDark client includes an integrated instant decentralized exchange (InstantDEX), which allows near-realtime trading of a wide range of crypto currencies and assets. InstantDEX builds up composite order books from many sources, giving the best possible depth and narrowest spreads, and settles trades on a peer-to-peer basis. BitcoinDark’s Pegged Asset Exchange (PAX) enables users to buy and sell pegged assets, including major currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, CNY), commodities (gold, silver, copper), ETFs and stocks. PAX is completely decentralized and has no single point of failure – meaning it cannot easily be shut down by governments or other third parties, among other things there are also other financial advantages, unlike any other security freeze on a credit report the one provided by ChexSystems freeze has some caveeats you have to be aware of.

InstantDEX, PAX and also BitcoinDark itself can be stored on your own personal machine. This means that you will always have access to your assets: no more need for brokers advising how to buy Tesla shares UK and/or banks to function as your middleman! From now on you can do it from your own home. Be your own bank, and take the responsibilities that come with it. Never before in history has mankind been able to trade, store and send currencies, commodities and stocks this easily. BitcoinDark is a complete financial system. Revenues generated are distributed to stakers to reward them for protecting and maintaining the network. Anyone can buy BTCD and run the client. Revenues are periodically paid out in BTCD, with revenue streams generated by SuperNET and a wide range of other businesses and initiatives.

Website:
– http://bitcoindark.com/

Block Explorer:
– http://explorebtcd.info/

Coin Specifications

  • SHA-256 Algorithm for PoW + PoS
  • PoW Block Reward: 80 BTCD
  • Total Number of Coins: 1.6 million PoW / 22 million total
  • PoW Blocks: 20,160
  • PoW Target Blocktime: 1 minute
  • Time to Maturity: 100 Confirmations
  • Proof of Stake Reward: 5% per year
  • Minimum Coin Stake Age: 8 hours
  • 1.5% premine to be used for development purposes

Wallet:
– Online Staking Wallet
– Windows
– Mac OS

Source Code:
– at GitHub

Ports:
– RPC Port: 14632
– P2P Port: 14631

Mining Pools:
– http://www.bitcoindark.net/multipool
– http://btcd.xpool.ca/

Coin Exchanges:
– Bittrex
– Bter

NiceHash Control 1.0.4 Tool Pack for GeForce GTX 750 Ti

12 Jul
2014

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We have updated our NiceHash Control tool pack for GeForce GTX 750 Ti miners for selling your hashrate on the NiceHash service with maximum profit. Our mining pack comes ready for mining rigs using GTX 750 Ti cards, with a ccMiner fork supporting Windows XP or newer and Compute 3.0 cards or newer. We have preset the hashrate for a single GTX 750 Ti card for the various algorithms, though this pack supports only X11, X13, X15 and Nist5 as we believe that there is not much point in adding the others as they are not very profitable or mine on Nvidia GPUs or on GPUs in general. You can use the tool on mining rigs with multiple cards or with different Nvidia GPUs as well, but then the automatic calculation for the expected profit for the various algorithms will be off.

In this update we have used the latest version 1.04 of the NiceHash Control tool. Also we have made a simple solution to include a backup pool in case NiceHash does have some problems, something that is useful as ccMiner does not officially support failover pools. Do note that the backup pool will kick in after a minute of the miner not being able to connect to NiceHash and it will mine there until the software switches the most profitable algorithm or if the backup pool connection fails for some reason.

What you need to do in order to use our GTX 750 Ti mining pack is to edit the config file and set your BTC address, edit the backup pool in the MINERS.bat file and then just start the AUTOSTART.BAT file to fire up the software. What is left is to monitor your earnings on the NiceHash website, and you can check the log.txt file for information what algorithm was switched to and when. If you like this tool and our GTX 750 Ti mining pack based around it, don’t forget to send a tip to the author of the NiceHash Control software.

– To download the NiceHash Control 1.0.4 GTX 750 Ti ready to use pack for Windows…

MinerEU Summer Promotion Prices for ZeusMiner and Gridseed

11 Jul
2014

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MinerEU, an official Gridseed and ZeusMiner distributor, has announced today a new summer sale of Scrypt ASIC miners and the promotional prices they now have for some of the miners are really attractive. In fact these new prices make it really much more attractive to order from MinerEU than to purchase directly from ZeusMiner, especially the larger Hurricane and Thunder miners that you can currently get at half their normal price. So if you were considering to buy some Scrypt ASIC miners and not do some pre-order, then you might want to check this promotion.

– ZeusMiner Blizzard – $80 USD
– ZeusMiner Hurricane X3 – $460 USD
– ZeusMiner Thunder X3 – $850 USD
– Gridseed G-Blade – $300 USD

Furthermore if you buy 4 or more ZeusMiner Blizzard miners you can use the promotional code blizz240 in order to get a price of $60 USD per unit instead of the regular single unit price of $80 USD. What we would really want to see however is a price promotion for the A2-based Scrypt ASIC miners as well, though apparently Innosilicon is still selling their 28nm Scrypt ASIC chips at pretty high prices and as a result their miners are still much more expensive compared to the competition for the same hashrate.

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