Posts Tagged ‘MAX’

MaxCoin Pools Still Under Constant DDoS Attacks

8, Feb 2014

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It seems that since the launch of the MaxCoin some of the largest pools that added support for mining MAX cryptos are under constant DDoS attacks and that is preventing the normal mining of the currency by normal users. Not only that this is hurting the trust in the new crypto, but it is generally driving away users from pools, especially if the pools are not prepared for such attacks. As a result of the constant DDoS attacks ypool has announced that they are stopping the MaxCoin mining pool and they were probably the largest MAX crypto pool. Another big pool that reports issues from the DDoS attacks is the 1GH pool, but they are still holding up and have not yet announced that they will give up on MAX.

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Maxcoin (MAX) Keccak (SHA-3) based cryptocoin

8, Feb 2014

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Maxcoin (MAX) is an alternative cryptocurrency disrupting the already rather disrupting crypto market. It does not use a typical SHA-256 algorithm, but instead relies on a different SHA-3 (Keccak) that makes it ASIC proof for now at least. You can mine it with either a CPU, though with GPU mining also available there will not be much point in using the CPU. You need to use a specialized mining client based on cgminer for GPU mining. Considering the fact that this is still very new crypto and it already has a few smaller exchanges supporting trades is a good sign for potential in this one.

Website
– http://signup.maxcoin.co.uk/

Block Explorer / Crawler
– http://max.cryptoexplore.com/

Specifications

  • Keccak (SHA-3) Algorithm
  • 250,000,000 total coins.
  • 96 MaxCoin per block, halving every ~12 months
  • Retargeting using Kimoto Gravity Well algorithm.
  • 30 second block times

DOWNLOADS
– Windows

Source Code
– at GitHub

POOLS
http://max.1gh.com/
http://max.rocketpool.co.uk/
http://pool.webcoin.us/max/
http://www.maxcoinmine.com/
http://max.smalltimeminer.com/
http://dwarfpool.com/max
https://max.mining4all.eu/
http://maxcoinpool.com/
http://pool.max-coin.net/
https://pool.maxcoin.co.nz/
http://max.crunchpool.com/

EXCHANGES
– Yobit
– Bleutrade


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