Buy Electronic Gift Cards with Bitcoin from Gyft

31 Jan
2014

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Gyft is an interesting online service for purchasing gift cards for leading online retailers such as Amazon, Gamestop, Facebook, JCPenny, Nike, Old Navy, Sears, Staples, Target, Victoria’s Secret and many others that accepts Bitcoins as well as other typical payments methods. This allows you to actually shop with Bitcoins in stores that normally do not accept crypto currency payments directly, by first obtaining a gift card for a given amount that you pay for with Bitcoins. Of course you can also send the gift card to someone else in the form of a gift that the receiver can use in the specific store and you can pay with crypto without first having to go through an exchange to turn the Bitcoins in USD for example.

– To check out the Gyft options for different electronic gift cards…

Memecoin (MEM) Scrypt based cryptocoin

31 Jan
2014

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Memecoin (MEM) is an alternate virtual cryptocurrency made for users to share, mine and trade. It is a scrypt-based alt coin.

Website
– Announcement at Bitcointalk

Block Explorer / Crawler
Not Available.

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Scrypt Algorithm
  • 200 million Memecoins will be created
  • 600 block re-target
  • 100 coins per block

DOWNLOADS
– Windows

Source Code
– at GitHub

POOLS
– http://mem.botpool.net/
– http://mem.crypcomi.com/
– http://meme.ub3rl33t.com/

EXCHANGES
– Bleutrade

Megacoin (MEC) Scrypt based cryptocoin

30 Jan
2014

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Megacoin (MEC) is a new type of decentralized currency. Not minted or endorsed by any nation, but by users across the globe. Anywhere there is internet, you can send or receive Megacoins. Even in outer space. There are very little rules for Megacoin. To prevent inflation only a limited supply of 42 million Megacoins will ever exist. Megacoins are mined by users at a set rate for decades into the future. You can get Megacoins for free by mining or trading for them on an exchange.

Website
– Announcement at Bitcointalk

Block Explorer / Crawler
– https://coinplorer.com/MEC

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Scrypt Algorithm
  • Coins: 42 million
  • Block Target: 2.5 minutes
  • Difficulty Retarget: 22.5 minutes
  • The Beginning: 1st 5 months, 21 million coins will be generated
  • Every 21,000 blocks (1 month) the reward steps down from 500, 250, 125, 75, 50.
  • Continued Use: Through the next few decades the remaining 21 million will be generated
  • Every 420,000 blocks (2 years), The reward starts at 25 and is halved each period
  • 10.5 million come from first 2 Years of 420,000 blocks

DOWNLOADS
– Online Wallet
– Windows
– Mac

Source Code
– at GitHub

PORTS

  • RPC Port: 7950
  • P2P Port: 7951

POOLS
– https://hash-to-coins.com/

EXCHANGES
– Crex
– Bleutrade

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