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Pascal Coin (PASC) Halving in About a Week (Block #420480)

24, Apr 2020

Pascal Coin (PASC) is not a new crypto project, it has been around for a while already and is getting very close to its second block reward halving (it is halving every 2 years, not four like Bitcoin). You can say that PASC had its prime in early 2018 and lately it seems to be loosing traction, even though the project itself has some really good advantages and features available. We also haven’t been following it actively for more than a year already, but the upcoming second halving of the block reward – initially 100 coins, currently 50 coins (20% goes for development, so 40 to miners) and going down in half to 25 PASC coins is what reminded us about the project. The next halving is going to happen in about a week from now starting at block number 420480 the block reward will become 25 PASC coins, so we have decided to check the situation with mining at the moment.

There are currently two different miners available for Pascal Coin (PASC) and the RandomHash Proof of Work algorithm that it uses – rhminer and nanominer. We have tested both miners on AMD and Intel platform and below you can find the results we got, do note that rhminer’s built-in donation is 1% while nanominer has a 5% fixed fee for RandomHash2 mining used by PASC. Do note that Pascal Coin is mineable only on CPUs, there are currently no GPU miners available for that algorithm and coin as far as we are aware.

rhminer 2.3 version 3:
AMD Ryzen 3900X (12C-24T) – 410 KH/s
Intel Core i7 6850K (6C-12T) – 163 KH/s

nanominer v1.8.2:
AMD Ryzen 3900X (12C-24T) – 363 KH/s
Intel Core i7 6850K (6C-12T) – 110 KH/s

The AMD platform has double the CPU cores, so it is not surprising that it performs faster, but it also seems that the RandomHash algorithm that Pascal Coin (PASC) uses does manage to perform a bit better on the latest generation of AMD Ryzen CPUs. Out of the two miners the nanominer is apparently not as well optimized as rhminer and the 4 percent extra dev fee it has makes the rhminer as the preferred choice for sure. Nanominer also performs worse on Intel as compared to AMD based on the performance we see in our comparison, but still rhminer is giving roughly 50 KH/s extra performance on both platforms and has significantly lower dev fee. You can trade any mined Pascal (PASC) coins on TOKOK and qTrade crypto exchanges.

Upcoming Popular Crypto Coins Halvings This Year

14, Apr 2020

Everybody is waiting for the most important Bitcoin (BTC) halving that is happening in a bit less than a month from now, but this is not the only popular crypto coin that is going to have its halving this year (4000 blocks remaining), tough without a doubt the most anticipated one for sure. Bitcoin started at 50 BTC per block, then the first halving after 4 years reduced it to 25 coins, the second halving in another four years further reduced it to 12.5 BTC (the current block reward) and the upcoming next one will reduce he reward in half once more to 6.25 BTC per block. F2Pool has a list of upcoming halvings for this year with interesting information about the coins listed that you might want to check out if interested and below you can find a bit more information about what other popular crypto coins will have their halvings by the end of the year.

In just 12 days the closest upcoming halving or more specifically block reward reduction is for DASH where the current block reward of 1.55 DASH will be reduced to 1.43933 DASH after about 7100 more blocks expected to happen near the end of this month. In 18 days there will be a halving of PascalCoin (PASC) from 50.0 PASC down to 25 PASC per block, then there is Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) halving in about 107 days with block reward dropping from the current 125 BCD to 62.5 BCD. ZelCash (ZEL) will follow next in about 110 days with block reward going down from the current 112.5 ZEL to 56.25 ZEL, then Monacoin (MONA) will also half from 25 MONA to 12.5 MONA in about 139 days. Zcoin (XZC) also has a halving this year in 161 days with block reward going down from 14 XZC to 7 XZC, Callisto (CLO) will half in 182 days, then Zcash (ZEC) halves in 216 days and then in 229 days Horizen (ZEN).

– For more information about F2Pool’s listing of Upcoming Halvings of popular crypto coins…


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