Posts Tagged ‘Bytecoin’

CryptUnit, a Web-based Cryptonote Mining Profitability Calculator

17, Feb 2018

CryptUnit is an interesting new service offering up to date data for Cryptonote-based altcoins that you can mine, giving you profitability information along with more details about each of the supported coins. You just need to enter your Cryptonight hashrate and the service will calculate what is the most profitable coin to mine at the moment and give you some extra useful information such as pools and exchanges if you are not familiar with the coin. Of course profitability varies all the time, so things change and the most profitable coins vary all the time. Currently the service covers 16 different Cryptonote coins that can be mined with CPU or GPU (both AMD and Nvidia). The people most interested in this service are probably going to be the ones with AMD-based video cards especially RX VEGA 56/64 due to their very high mining performance especially in the Cryptonight algorithm.

– To check out the CryptUnit web service offering Cryptonote mining profitability information…

Major Bug in CryptoNote Base Crypto Currencies Disclosed

18, May 2017

The developers of Monero (XMR) have just disclosed that they have discovered and patched a critical bug that affects all CryptoNote-based cryptocurrencies, and allows for the creation of an unlimited number of coins in a way that is undetectable to an observer unless they know about the fatal flaw and can search for it. This major bug has been patched a while ago and it has been confirmed that the Monero network was never affected by it. All other active and affected CryptoNote coins, including CryptoNote themselves, Bytecoin, Forknote, Boolberry, DashCoin, and DigitalNote have apparently been notified about the possible issue prior to the public disclosure of the problem.

Note that, at this time, only Monero (XMR), Aeon (AEON), Boolberry (XBB), and Forknote have updated. This means that there could be potential abuse, though it may not necessarily happen with coins that have not patched and fixed the bug. As a result caution is advised for anyone using, trading, exchanging, or running services involving the following currencies affected by this issue: Bytecoin (BCN), DashCoin (DSH), DigitalNote (XDN). Just to clarify a possible misunderstanding by some users – DashCoin (DSH) is not the same as DASH as DASH is not CryptoNote, but X11-based!

– Check the official announcement from Monero about the major bug discovery and fix…

Bytecoin (BCN) CryptoNight-based alternative cryptocoin

13, Mar 2014

bytecoin-logo

Bytecoin (BCN) is an alternative cryptocurrency, but it is not a fork Bitcoin and uses the unique algorithm CryptoNight, based on CryptoNote technology. Bytecoin is an open decentralized cryptocurrency. Anyone interested can join Bytecoin network and take part in currency development. As well as the Internet, Bytecoin is international by its nature. Bytecoin allows safe and secure transactions around the globe and offers the convenience of instant fee-free money transactions.

Website:
– https://bytecoin.org/

Block Explorer:
– http://chainradar.com/bcn/blocks

Coin Specifications

  • CryptoNight Algorithm
  • Total coins: 18 446 744 073 709 551 616 atomic units (= 184.46 billion BCN)
  • Block reward decreases each block according to the formula: BaseReward = (MSupply – A)/218, where MSupply = (264 – 1) atomic units and ‘A’ is amount of already generated coins
  • One coin is divisible down to 8 decimal places (divisible up to 108)
  • Block time: 120 seconds (2 minutes)
  • Difficulty retargets each block

Wallet:
– Windows
– Linux
– Mac OS

Source Code:
– at GitHub

Mining Pools:
– MinerGate
– http://bytecoin.miner.center/
– http://bcn.democats.org/
– http://cryptonight.net/
– cryptmonero.com/bytecoin/

Coin Exchanges:
– HitBTC
– Gateio
– Crex
– Stex


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