It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, DOGE, KAS mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
If you think about URL shortening services, then probably you immediately think about bit.ly or a similar generic service, however if you are into crypto currencies, then you should also know about CoinURL. This is an URL shortening service targeted at crypto currency users that not only will shorten your URL, but will also allow you to win some crypto coins by shortening URLs in the service and then sharing them through IM clients, posting on Forums or Facebook and so on and people click on them. When you click on a link that has been shortened at the service you will be briefly shown an advertisement that will most likely be something about crypto coins, before you are transferred to the page you should be visiting. If you shorten URLs and post them using this service you are essentially getting paid thanks to the ads that the people clicking on the links are seeing, so the more clicks you get, the more BTC you will earn from them.
Aside from the link shortening that it provides and the ability for normal users to win Bitcoins by shortening links and sharing them, the service also has useful features available for people that want to advertise to people interested in crypto currencies. The fact that the URL shortening is targeted to mostly crypto users makes it the perfect place to advertise your new alternative crypto currency that just launched, a crypto mining pool, cloud mining service, or a crypto related blog. Furthermore if you have a crypto coin related website or blog you may also publish crypto currency related ads provided by CoinURL and when people click on them you will also earn Bitcoins.
If you want to advertise something on you will need to deposit some BTC in your account on the website, then create your ad and pay for a number of impressions with the Bitcoins. There is a review process after you submit your ad that may take some time, our test show that sometimes it could take a day or two before your ad gets approved, but generally it should be faster. And the results from a few thousand impressions were pretty good, we promoted a bit this blog as a test for the service. So if you think that you can combine the usefulness of this URL shortening service with the chance to earn some extra cryptos, then we advice you to give it a go and try it out now.
– For more information and to try out the link shortening service CoinURL…
PXLcoin (PXL) is another alternative Scrypt crypto coin, however here the algorithm being used by the coin is not the most interesting thing about it, in fact it is the least interesting one. The Million Dollar Homepage was created in 2005, where people could purchase pixels on the site for $1 and then upload an image and hyperlink. As people began buying up those pixels and uploading their images, the homepage was filled out and internet history was created.
PXLCoin official website contains a new canvass for the cryptocurrency community. Instead of charging “real” money, each pixel on the site can be purchased using PXLs. Upload whatever your imagination desires – your clan logo, pictures of your doge, a business logo or advertisement – whatever you want. And the image can also link to a web URL.
Website
– http://pxlcoin.com/
Block Explorer / Crawler
– http://blocks.pxlcoin.com/chain/Pxlcoin
SPECIFICATIONS
Source Code
– at GitHub
PORTS
POOLS
http://pxl.minar.cc/
http://pxl.bitember.com/
http://pool.pxlcoin.com/
http://115.28.161.45/
EXCHANGES
– Atomic Trade
Skeincoin (SKC) is another alternative cryptographic currency that uses a different algorithm – the Skein hashing algorithm combined with SHA256 hashing as Proof of Work. Skeincoin hashing is fast and can be implemented for CPU, GPU, FGPA and ASIC. Note that the use of a specialized algorithm means that Skeincoin requires a specialized miner in order to be able to mine SKC.
Website
– http://www.skeincoin.org/
Block Explorer / Crawler
– http://explorer.skeincoin.org/blocks
SPECIFICATIONS
Source Code
– at GitHub
PORTS
POOLS
– http://skc.coinmine.pl/
EXCHANGES
– Atomic Trade