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