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VPS solo mining guide for scrypt altcoins
This is a short guide to solo mining various scrypt coins using cheap VPS servers from DigitalOcean. The example below is for ekrona, a new scrypt coin, but it can be easily modified to use with any other scrypt altcoin. Solo mining on VPS servers is effective only for scrypt coins with low diff factor.…
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[KRN] Ekrona – a new scrypt coin – NO PREMINE
eKrona is a scrypt coin dedicated for Nordic countries. This is a PoW scrypt altcoin with no premine and 3.3 minute blocks. Launch date: 10 January 2014 Official website: http://ekrona.org Source: https://github.com/ekrona/ekrona Low starting difficulty and 0 premine makes it a good start for CPU and GPU miners. Ekrona specifications: – 40 coins per block –…
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FRC – Freicoin
Freicoin is a peer-to-peer (P2P) sha-256 cryptocurrency based on the accounting concept of a proof-of-work block chain used by Satoshi Nakamoto in the creation of Bitcoin. The main difference and feature of Freicoin is demurrage. A demurrage fee ensures its circulation and bearers of the currency pay this fee automatically. This demurrage fee was proposed by…
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I0C – i0coin
i0coin was released in August 2011, just after IxCoin. It was declared as Ixcoin with 0 pregenerated blocks, see the original i0C bitcointalk thread. It is a sha-256 coin which can be merged mined with Bitcoin. The i0coin chain has become dormant and has a low hash rate. There was interest in the forum thread recently…
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IXC – iXcoin
The International eXchange Coin (IXC) iXcoin is the first Bitcoin clone, created in May 2011 just a few weeks after the distributed DNS Namecoin. The iXcoin fork of Bitcoin was created by Thomas Nasakioto in May 2011. IxCoin official website with client download links: http://www.ixcoin.co/ Always remember to use the latest IXC client from the official website. IxCoin specifications and differences from Bitcoin:…