Sunday 24 November 2013

How to mine Peercoins


(user and password = crypto)

I've included here three folders: two with the necessary files to start mining Peercoins right away and one more to mint them through Proof of Stake (only if you already have some!). Let's start with the mining part. Update 1, 15 December, 2013: If after downloading the file you see it has no extension, append .zip to its name or open it as a .zip file.

If you've never mined Peercoins before, you can follow these steps to test your hardware:

Friday 22 November 2013

Peercoin / PPCoin


Symbol - PPC
Algorithm - SHA-256, Proof of Stake
Total Coins - Undetermined (check current total)
Coins per Block - Varies with difficulty (check current reward)
Difficulty Retarget on every block
First Block mined on August 19, 2012
Status - Alive
Official Website
Download Windows Client (May not be the latest version!)
Download Linux Client (May not be the latest version!)
Mac Client not available
Source Code
Download Mining Package (Read the README.txt!)
Profitability Calculator
Mining Pools - Coinotron | D7 Pool | Fuzzypool
Exchanges - Vircurex | Cryptsy | BTC-e
Block Explorer
Forum
Announcement Thread
Reddit
IRC Channel
Faucets / Free Peercoins - None
Shops - coingas
First cryptocoin to implement the Proof of Stake minting algorithm

Wednesday 20 November 2013

How to mine Namecoins


(user and password = crypto)

I've included here two folders with the necessary files to start mining Namecoins right away. Update 1, 15 December, 2013: If after downloading the file you see it has no extension, append .zip to its name or open it as a .zip file.

If you've never mined Namecoins before, you can follow these steps to test your hardware:

Tuesday 19 November 2013

Namecoin


Symbol - NMC
Algorithm - SHA-256
Total Coins - 21 millions
Block Time - 10 minutes
Coins per Block - 50
Coins per Block are halved every 210,000 Blocks
Difficulty Retarget every 2,016 Blocks
First Block mined on April 19, 2011
Status - Alive
Official Website
Download Windows Client (May not be the latest version!)
Linux Client not available
Mac Client not available
Source Code
Download Mining Package (Read the README.txt!)
Profitability Calculator
Mining Pools - BTC Guild | Bitparking | BitMinter
Exchanges - Vircurex | Cryptsy | BTC-e
Block Explorer
Forum
Announcement Thread
Reddit
IRC Channel
Faucets / Free Namecoins - None
Shops - None
You can buy .bit domains with this cryptocoin

Monday 18 November 2013

How to mine Litecoins


(user and password = crypto)

I've included here two folders with the necessary files to start mining Litecoins right away. Update 1, 15 December, 2013: If after downloading the file you see it has no extension, append .zip to its name or open it as a .zip file.

If you've never mined Litecoins before, you can follow these steps to test your hardware:

Sunday 17 November 2013

Litecoin


Symbol - LTC
Algorithm - Scrypt
Total Coins - 84 millions
Block Time - 2.5 minutes
Coins per Block - 50
Coins per Block are halved every 840,000 Blocks
Difficulty Retarget every 2,016 Blocks
First Block mined on October 8, 2011
Status -Alive
Official Website
Download Windows Client (May not be the latest version!)
Download Linux Client (May not be the latest version!)
Download Mac Client (May not be the latest version!)
Source Code
Download Mining Package (Read the README.txt!)
Profitability Calculator
Mining Pools - WeMineLTC | LiteGuardian | Coinotron
Exchanges - Vircurex | Cryptsy | mcxNOW
Block Explorer
Forum
Announcement Thread
Reddit
IRC Channel
Faucets / Free Litecoins - Litecoiner | Litecoin Faucet | Coin of Midas
Shops - Litecoin Store
The first cryptocoin to use the scrypt algorithm

Sunday 10 November 2013

How to mine Bitcoins


(user and password = crypto)

I've included here two folders with the necessary files to start mining Bitcoins right away. Update 1, 15 December, 2013: If after downloading the file you see it has no extension, append .zip to its name or open it as a .zip file.

If you've never mined Bitcoins before, you can follow these steps to test your hardware:

Saturday 9 November 2013

Bitcoin


Symbol - BTC
Algorithm - SHA-256
Total Coins - 21 millions
Block Time - 10 minutes
Coins per Block - 50
Coins per Block are halved every 210,000 Blocks
Difficulty Retarget every 2,016 Blocks
First Block mined on January 9, 2009
Status - Alive
Download Windows Client (May not be the latest version!)
Download Linux Client (May not be the latest version!)
Download Mac Client (May not be the latest version!)
Source Code

Friday 8 November 2013

Cryptocoin properties in one place

It's not difficult to find lists of cryptocoins around, like the one at Bitcointalk. They tell you their names and with a bit of luck some information about their characteristics. But all are incomplete. There's not a single place on the Internet where you can clearly see all the different cryptocoins ever created and their properties. That's why I, The Bitcoin Master, have decided to create this blog: to give a ray of hope to all those who have lost themselves among the huge amount of coins created in the cryptocurrency world!