Posts Tagged ‘scrypt’

Rubycoin (RBY) Scrypt-based alternative cryptocoin

21, Feb 2014

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Rubycoin (RBY) is digital money used for secure and instant transfer of value anywhere in the world, with no borders or limits. There is no government, company, or bank in charge. Utilizing blockchain technology, Rubycoin are issued and managed without any central authority. Every user with a Rubycoin wallet plays an important role in processing transactions on the decentralized, peer-to-peer network. Interest is earned by each participant and users stay in full control of their money.

Website:
– https://www.rubycoin.org/

Block Explorer:
– https://chainz.cryptoid.info/rby/

Coin Specifications

  • Scrypt Algorithm PoW + PoS
  • Max Supply: 60 million coins
  • Block Reward: For the first 5 months, rewards step down from 500, 250, 125, 75, 50
  • Block Target: 150 seconds
  • Difficulty Retargetting: Every block
  • Premine: 2%
  • Proof of Stake (PoS) reward: 4 RBY
  • Block Time: 90 seconds
  • Minimum Stake Age: 500 blocks

Wallet:
– Online Staking Wallet
– Windows
– Linux
– Mac OS

Source Code:
– at GitHub

Mining Pools:
The coin is now PoS only, no mining pools available.

Coin Exchanges:
– Yobit
– Bittrex

TrollCoin (TROLL) Scrypt-based alternative cryptocoin

12, Feb 2014

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Trollcoin (TROLL) is a digital currency that came into existence on February 14, 2014. TrollCoins are stored in a digital wallet on your PC, Mac, Android Smartphone, or on cloud services running a wallet on your behalf, with separate user accounts keeping track of individual balances, such as TrollCoinBOT & digital currency exchanges. TrollCoin transfers are blazing fast, your transaction completes & verifies in about 1 minute.

Approximately 338 Million TrollCoin exist today, more coins are continuously mined at a rate halving periodically until the final 900th Million TrollCoin has been mined or staked. At that point, no additional coins will be created as set forth by the TrollCoin protocol. Anyone can mine TrollCoin using their computer or specialized mining hardware. You can also earn TrollCoin by keeping Trolls in your wallet & leaving online to support the network & earn periodical rewards in an automatic process called Staking.

Website:
– http://trollcoinbase.com/

Block Explorer:
– https://chainz.cryptoid.info/troll/

Coin Specifications

  • Scrypt Algorithm (PoW) + Static Proof of Stake v3
  • PoW Initial Reward per Block: 125 TROLL
  • PoW Target Spacing: 60 Seconds
  • PoW Difficulty Retarget: 10 Blocks
  • Full Confirmation: 10 Blocks
  • PoS Reward: 7 TROLL Static Reward
  • PoS Target Spacing: 64 Seconds
  • PoS Difficulty Retarget: 10 Blocks
  • PoS Min: 1 Hour, Max: Unlimited
  • Total Max Coins: 900,000,000 TROLL
  • Block Size: 7MB

Wallet:
– Windows
– Mac OS

Source Code:
– at GitHub

Ports:
– RPC Port: 17000
– P2P Port: 15000

Mining Pools:
– http://troll.nation-wars.com/

Coin Exchanges:
– Bleutrade

Download the Latest CUDAminer Nvidia GPU Miner Software

8, Feb 2014

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While GPU mining still does work better on AMD-based graphics processors using OpenCL, the latest versions of the CUDAminer software intended for use on Nvidia-based graphics cards has gone through a good performance optimization and it makes mining with CUDA a good option if you have some spare and unused Nvidia GPUs. The fact tha there are still shortages of the Radeon R9 280X graphics cards on the market – the all-round best performer for Scrypt GPU mining makes the alternative to mine coins with Nvidia GPU a decent alternative. Of course the price/performance ratio of an Nvidia GPU versus and AMD GPU for mining is still in favor of AMD graphics. You can expect to get about 550-560 KH/s from a stock (non overclocked) Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics card, while the same performance is easily achievable with a much cheaper stock AMD Radeon R9 280X card. If you however have a watercooled 780 Ti and overclock it well, you might be able to reach hashrate close to about 900 kHash/s according to the author of the software. Regardless, if you already have a CUDA-capable graphics processor why not put it to some mining work to get some extra crypto coins, it also makes for a good option to try out new pools or alternative cryptos…

One of the best things about the CUDAminer software is that it automatically detects the best settings for your graphics card, so that after yo run it the software can squeeze out the maximum mining performance automatically for you. This takes the guesswork and a lot of time spent for testing different settings, though you can still do that if you wish to fine tune things. One of the still missing important features from this miner is the failover pool switching to backup pools in case of a problem with the current mining pool. CUDAminer already has support for scrypt mining with N=1024 (LiteCoin and many, many other scrypt clones like DOGE for example), scrypt-jane mining (Yacoin and several clones), scrypt mining with larger N (VertCoin) and the recently released MaxCoin mining (SHA-3 i.e. Keccak256). So you will be up to speed even with the latest alternative crypto currencies such as VertCoin and MaxCoin that have generated quite some buzz in the last few days. Below you can download the latest binary for windows of CudaMiner or you can compile it yourself from the (source).

Update: CudaMiner is now an old and non supported anymore miner for Nvidia GPUs, you should switch to the more recent and supported ccMiner instead in order to get better support, including for newer mining algorithms and coins, as well as faster hashrates for your Nvidia-based GPU mining rigs!

– Download the latest CUDAminer 2014-02-28 Nvidia GPU mining software…


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