It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, DOGE, KAS mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
KnCMiner has just announced that they are already in the testing/tweaking/assembly stage of their 20 nanometer Neptune ASIC processors in Sweden and shipping should commence some time later this week. The Neptune processors are quite an interesting technological achievement as they are actually the first commercially available 20 nanometer processor shipped to end users… and we are not talking about ASIC miners only. Intel for example is currently shipping 22nm CPUs, though they are already preparing for a 14nm launch maybe sometime later this year, and AMD’s latest processors take advantage of 28nm fabrication process. So it is interesting to see a Bitcoin ASIC manufacturer pushing advanced technology ahead of other much larger and more established companies are able to do so.
The Neptune is a 1440-core 55×55 mm package tailor-made for the Bitcoin mining (SHA-256 ASIC). Each Neptune miner will consist of 5 ASIC chips and comes in new sturdier enclosure and packaging and should be capable of 3 THS or even more while consuming about 2.1 KW of power at the wall. That results out to just about 0.7 watts of power used per GHS, so really god power efficiency and KnC does promise to possibly further increase the performance of the device with software updates. The first two batches of the Neptune Bitcoin miners are already sold-out and KnCMiner is taking pre-orders for Batch three at the moment. They expect to start shipping Batch 1 to customers this week and to Batch 2 pre-orders before the end of the month.
QuazarCoin (QCN) is the new generation of cryptocurrency which is based on the CryptoNote protocol and uses the CryptoNight algorithm. The CryptoNight algorithm is the most democratic today, fully ASIC-resistant and only CPU-mineable. QuazarCoin was launched May 8, 2014 after discussion in the community, without premine or instamine. QuazarCoin protects your data and privacy through unlinkable transactions with ring signatures. The main concern of QuazarCoin is usability optimization.
Website:
– http://www.quazarcoin.org/
Block Explorer:
– http://chainradar.com/qcn/blocks
Coin Specifications
Wallet:
– Windows
– Linux
– Mac OS
Source Code:
– at GitHub
Ports:
– RPC Port: 23081
– P2P Port: 23080
Mining Pools:
– MinerGate
– http://qcn.cryptity.com/
– http://quazar.xminingpool.com/
Coin Exchanges:
– HitBTC
Rethinking it, that is slogan for Primio. New coins nowadays share a lot of specifications. These are often easily copied from one another and not thought through. All specifications for Primio are thoroughly thought through. The main specification that distinguishes Priomo from other peer to peer currencies is the hashing function. The JH hashing function was a candidate in the SHA-3 competition and is chosen to power the blockchain of Primio. There will be no major players like multipools or ASICs, meaning that Primio is open for anyone. Primio will start with a subsidy of 50 coin per block and will halve every 100,000 blocks or about every year. After 5 halvings the subsidy will be 0 and only fees will be rewarded. This makes the mining period last about 6 years. Currently the Primio coin only has a CPU miner available.
Website
– http://myriad.theblockexplorer.com
Block Explorer / Crawler
Not Yet Available.
SPECIFICATIONS
DOWNLOADS
– Windows
– Mac
– Linux
Source Code
– at GitHub
PORTS
POOLS
– https://primio.nicemining.pw/
EXCHANGES
– Atomic Trade