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WorldCoin [WDC] – Coin Of The Future
WorldCoin [WDC] – “Separated by borders, unified by technology”. WorldCoin is a scrypt cryptocurrency launched in May 2013. It is a very fast fork of Litecoin – block time is set to be no more than 60 seconds. WorldCoin Fundation…
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Yacoin [YAC] – Your Alternative Currency
Yacoin was started on May 5, 2013 as “Yet Another Coin”. A couple of months later it was officialy renamed to “Your Alternative Currency”. YAC uses a modified version of scrypt algo – N factor scrypt, it is a hybrid…
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[MAX] MaxCoin mining on DigitalOcean VPS
This is a quick guide to mine MaxCoin [MAX] using virtual private servers provided by Digital Ocean. MaxCoin is a CPU coin with new algo (keccak). How to mine MaxCoin on VPS? Create a DigitalOcean account if you don’t have…
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[MED] MediterraneanCoin Mining Pool
MediterraneanCoin [MED] is a new hybrid altcoin. It uses HybridScryptHAsh256 PoW, which combines ASIC features and high CPU load. Since today you can mine MediterraneanCoin not only solo, but also using a pool. First MediterraneanCoin mining pool: http://ibipot.com To mine MED coin you…
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VPS Mining Guide for CPU Altcoins
You can use cheap VPS services (EC2 or DigitalOcean) to mine CPU only altcoins. Here is a quick step-by-step guide how to mine those coins. This example is for DarkCoin [DRK] and DigitalOcean VPS servers. Create a DigitalOcean account. You…
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[DRK] DarkCoin – CPU Anonymous Coin
Darkcoin [DRK] was launched on 18-Jan-2014 as “XCoin”. It is a CPU only coin with hybrid hashing algorithm using 11 rounds of scientific hashing functions (blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein, luffa, cubehash, shavite, simd, echo). Darkcoin wallet downloads Linux wallet – https://github.com/evan82/darkcoin…
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Termcoin – a bitcoin and altcoin terminal wallet for Linux
Here is a quick setup guide for having a beautiful text only terminal wallet for any cryptocurrency on Linux. The following example is for Ekrona coin and Debian 7.0, but it can be easily adapted to any altcoin and any…
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DEM – Deutsche eMark – a sha-256 altcoin
Launched on 15-Oct-2013, DEM is first widely adopted “national branded” altcoin. Deutsche eMark is a sha-256 coin with PoW and PoS. Official website with DEM wallet downloads: http://www.deutsche-emark.org/ eMark can be mined with all ASIC hardware used for Bitcoin mining,…
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[ASC] AsicCoin – The sha-256 coin for ASIC mining
Launched on 11-Sep-2013, AsicCoin is a SHA-256 crypto-currency based on Bitcoin version 0.8, with super random blocks. It is a coin for designed for ASIC mining hardware. Official website with wallet downloads: http://asiccoin.biz Fair launch with no premine. This is an ideal…
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NVC – NovaCoin
NovaCoin was launched in February 2013 as first scrypt PoW + PoS coin. In short words NovaCoin combines scrypt hashing (as in Litecoin) with PoS mechanism (as in PPC). Official website with wallet downloads: http://novacoin.org Remember to use the latest Novacoin…
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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.…
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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…