Talkcoin (TAC) NIST5 based cryptocoin

9 May
2014

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Most people who learned about Bitcoin look at it as nothing more than a currency, but the reality is that it’s much more than that. At its core, Bitcoin is a new technology that allows everyone around the world to come to a consensus on who owns what without the use of a centralized third party. There are many different applications that can be built on top of this technology, and Bitcoin is only the first of many apps to come. Talkcoin uses the real innovation behind this protocol to create a new generation of cryptocurrency. Talkcoin is a new experience that will bring something new to the crypto world and beyond it. Talkcoin uses a specific algorithm called NIST5 and needs a special miner, currently the coin is mined with better hashrate on Nvidia GPUs than on AMD.

Website
– http://talkcoin.org/

Block Explorer / Crawler
– http://talk.cryptocoinunion.com/

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Algorithms: NIST5: BLAKE – Grøstl – JH – Keccak – Skein
  • Block time: 20 sec
  • Cofirmations: 3
  • Block reward: 0-50 max (decentralized reward voting), default: 25
  • Multipool protection: Talkcoin Gravity
  • QR code support, TOR support, Multilanguages

DOWNLOADS
– Windows

Source Code
– at GitHub

PORTS

  • RPC Port: 9801
  • P2P Port: 9802

MINERS
– GPU miner for AMD
– GPU miner for Nvidia

POOLS
– http://tac.nonce-pool.com/
– http://dwarfpool.com/tac
– https://tac.suprnova.cc/

EXCHANGES
– Bittrex

Minera, a New Web Interface For Gridseed Mining Devices

9 May
2014

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Minera is a new web-based frontend to monitor the Gridseed devices using cpuminer and it is designed to take advantage of the sandor111’s form of cpuminer that has many additional features as compared to the original cpuminer released with Gridseed support. Minera is designed to be used under Linux like on a Raspberry Pi mining controller or a Linux Debian systems, though it might work on others as well. Minera is only a frontend that comes with the cpuminer, all the rest you need to have already installed and running prior to adding the frontend to the mining controller or system you are going to be using.

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Do note that this frontend is designed for Gridseed ASICs and the cpuminer only supports Scrypt mining using them, it is not compatible with other mining solutions, but since it is a free and Open Source software you can freely modify it to support other mining hardware as well. Definetly worth checking it out if you are mining with Gridseed ASICs and like the cpuminer fork by sandor111, but even if not interested in Minera, you can check out the latest cpuminer with TUI as it just got support for failover pools as a new feature, so even without a web-based graphical frontend this miner is a very good solution.

– For more information and to check out Minera web-based frontend for Gridseed ASICs…

Zeus Could Start Shipping Their Scrypt ASIC Miners Earlier

8 May
2014

The company Zeus has released an update on their website about the current progress for the ZeusMiner Scrypt ASICs that they already promised to start shipping by the end of this month. They have just announced that they will be starting to ship the first 500 orders from May 20th to latest May 25th, so apparently they are a bit ahead of the previously announced schedule to start shipping by May 31st. Another interesting thing is that the company will be releasing the miners not pushed to the maximum and promises an update that will allow users to further increase the hashrate later on. Also the company has announced that they will give out a second free miner, one that is a level lower in the product line than the ordered by the customer, so only the Blizzard customers will not get a second free miner with their orders. There is also a not so good quality video published from the company’s assembly factory in Shenzhen, China that you can see embedded above. So far things are looking pretty good for Zeus and their ZeusMiners and the only problem we currently find is that they do not have an official distributor in Europe for example to make it easier to get their products as they will be shipped from China.

We have decided to order one of the smallest 1.2 MHS Blizzard ZeusMiners in order to be able to test it and publish our hands-on experience with the Zeus Scrypt ASIC chips that are also used in the bigger miners. There are two options to pay directly to ZeusMiner, with BTC/LTC via CoinPayments or with Direct Bank Transfer, obviously using coins would be easier and faster and with no extra taxes from the bank. The price of the small Blizzard ZeusMiner is $199 USD and the shipping we got to Europe was $53.98 USD, so pretty steep price for shipping a small package from China, unless express courier service is used. Our order number was #2054, so apparently a lot of people have ordered Zeus Scrypt ASIC miners already with the company close to start shipping the actual units. We’ll keep you updated how things progress with our order.

– To read the latest update from ZeusMiner regarding the current status of their operations…

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