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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 PoW/PoS coin. Main YAC feature: Hashing algo has been changed from scrypt(1024, 1, 1) to…
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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 one. It’s simple and easy, and you can receive free $10 credit for your first…
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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 need a special version of bfgminer. Alternatively, you can use old bfgminer or cgminer with…
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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 can google for latest DigitalOcean promo codes to get rabates for first month. Create…
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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 Mac wallet – https://www.dropbox.com/s/wtadyzztgrs0ihw/Xcoin-Qt.app.osx10.7.zip Windows wallet (UPDATED) – https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9cvOfoOekSdZkJ5NENScHJ1Tkk/edit?usp=sharing Darkcoin specifications Super secure hashing algorithm: 11 rounds…