Posts Tagged ‘scrypt mining

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It has been about a week already since we have discovered the new Markets CX LTC cloud mining service and have started testing it. We have decided to give it a try as it was new and interesting, so we have invested 5 Litecoins to purchase about 120 KHS worth of cloud mining hashrate at a price of 0.0410 LTC per KHS. Initially we’ve had some concerns about the service that is claiming to be using Gridseed ASIC devices to provide so attractive prices for cloud mining hashrate as compared to other services that are still using GPUs. You can check our first impressions from the MarketsCX Litecoin cloud mining service and see some of the concerns and issues that some readers that have decided to try it out as well have reported.

The good news is that a week later and the service is still here and works and today we’ve got an official reply in the comments section of the article with our initial impressions seemingly from the Support of the service. This is the reason why we’ve decided to give some updates on our experience with the Markets CX service so far and below is a quote of the post regarding some of the issues reported in the comments above:

Guys, indeed there were some technical problems a few days ago. Some user accounts with dots and uppercase characters in their E-mail addresses were affected. We have successfully solved this problem. No LTC, KHS or mining profits were lost.

It is nice that they are keeping an eye on what other people are talking about their service and taking the time to respond to users with issues that are not posted on their website, though their onsite support seems a bit slow in responding apparently. Up until today we’ve had no issues with the service so far, and today was a bit of a delay when we have requested an LTC withdraw – we did not receive a confirmation email shortly after requesting the withdraw (previously we got it in less than a minute). So we’ve sent a support ticket about the problem and have requested multiple times a withdraw to test if we are going to receive an email. A bit more than an hour later we got a confirmation email and the withdraw was completed, so we’ve closed the ticket (we got no answer, but maybe the issues was addressed). So a few more hours later we’ve requested another withdraw to see if the problem with the delay still exists. Again we did not get a confirmation email within a few minutes, but requesting the withdraw again and we got the confirm email in a moment (again just one with two requests made).

Another thing that we did not like much about the service is the rapid decline in price per KHS, we have purchased hashrate just a week ago at 0.0410 LTC per KHS and back then this was very reasonable price and now the price is 0.02442 LTC per KHS. We are not sure if this is because of users that are dumping their hashrate or by the service pushing new hashrate at a lower price, but we are not very happy that in just a week time our hashrate lost almost half of its value (a common problem with cloud hashrate services with trading exchanges). Currently there are more than 34 MHS worth of hashrate available on the exchange, so at the moment you can buy some cheap LTC mining hashrate. We do recommend caution though as this is still a new service and we still do have some concerns, so not a good idea to invest a lot of Litecoins in it for the moment. If you are interested in checking it out you can get with a few LTCs like we did, as it is probably not a good idea to invest in thousands of KHS for the moment!

For more information about the Markets CX Litecoin cloud mining service and to try it out…

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ECCoin is an energy saving coin generating most of its coins through PoS blocks. It distributes its initial coins through 45 days evenly distributed PoW mining, no halves during the initial distribution phase, thus ensures a fair distribution. After initial distribution, the PoW block payout will be dropped to 1 coin per block. The main coin generation will be done through the PoS generations. ECCoin also adopts a variable PoS rate with the following annual interest rate: Year 1: 25%, Year 2: 15%, Year 3-9: 10%, Starting Year 10, it will have an annual PoS interest of 1%.

Website
http://www.eccoin.cc/

Block Explorer / Crawler
http://explorer.eccoin.cc/

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Scrypt Algo
  • Pow/Pos
  • Total Coins: 50 Billion
  • Block time target: 45 seconds
  • Difficulty retarget each block
  • 4 transaction confirmations
  • 50 minted block confirmations
  • Random 100000 – 300000 coins per block for the first 45 days evenly distribution

DOWNLOADS
Windows

Source Code
at GitHub

PORTS

  • RPC Port: 19119
  • P2P Port: 19118

POOLS
http://ecc.poolest.com/
http://ecchouse.com/
http://ecc.cloudminers.net/
http://ecc.bondni.com/
http://ecc.coins4everyone.com/
http://ecc.sumpool.com/
http://ecc.hashfever.com/
http://ecc.poolprefecture.com/
http://ecc.cryptopool.eu/
http://ecc.okaypool.com/
http://ecc.novahash.org/

EXCHANGES
AskCoin

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Heisenberg Hex (HEX) is a modern scrypt crypto-coin that is a descendant of litecoin. It uses a proof of work scheme, and will be rapidly distributed by way of a rapidly decreasing reward mechanism that follows a hexadecimal pattern. The later stages are designed in such a way as there will still be an incentive to mine, and therefore keep the network active, into the future, while still providing a strong incentive to mine as soon as possible in the early stages. The good news is that we have adapted by becoming an open organization.

Initially Heisenberg Hex provides 512,000 coins per block, with a 50% chance of each block rewarding miners with 1028000 coins instead. Each time the block reward changes, the standard block size, as well as the chance of hitting a super block, will decrease. The size of a super-block, however, is static, at 1028000 coins, and will remain so, throughout the entire life-cycle of the coin.

Website:
http://heisenberghex.info/

Block Explorer:
http://explorer2.sancrypto.info/chain/HEX

Coin Specifications

  • Scrypt Algorithm
  • Total amount of coins: 23 Billion HEX
  • 30 second block time
  • 45 confirmations for mined blocks
  • 5 confirmations for transactions
  • Reward currently down to 1000 coins per block with chance for higher reward
  • Premine 1% of the total coins

Wallet:
Windows
Linux
Mac OS

Source Code:
at GitHub

Ports:
– RPC Port: 39547
– P2P Port: 39546

Mining Pools:
http://hex.quicpools.com
http://hex.pitythepool.com

Coin Exchanges:
Yobit
Bleutrade


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