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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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