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Scrypt coins – List of cryptocurrencies using scrypt hashing algorithm

coinguides — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:11:34 +0000

Out of the top 5 cryptocurrencies by market cap 3 are mineable coins. Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Litecoin (LTC). All three operate within the proof-of-work consensus mechanism. However they all use different hashing algorithms. Bitcoin uses SHA-256 hash function and Ethereum currently uses Ethash Proof of Work hashing algorithm. In the near future Ethereum will …

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Monero hardfork v 0.14.0 Boron Butterfly – CryptoNight-R (CryptoNight v4)

coinguides — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 13:17:32 +0000

If you are a user of Monero and/or currently mining Monero (XMR) then you should be aware about the upcoming hardfork. The development team have already made an announcement regarding this protocol upgrade. This said network upgrade is set to occur on block height 1788000 which will take place on March 9th 2019. Now when …

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Antminer Z9 (non mini) – Overview, price, features and profitability

coinguides — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:27:41 +0000

For those who do not know; Bitmain is a Chinese company that is known to produce cutting edge ASIC chips for mining Cryptocurrencies. They have a wide range of ASIC miners capable of mining Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash, Zcash, Monero (formerly) and many others. Among them coins that remained GPU friendly for a long time …

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Bitcoin Gold network upgrade! Equihash-BTG – New PoW Algorithm

coinguides — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:50:36 +0000

Bitcoin Gold is a fork of Bitcoin core (BTC) protocol and the main purpose of Bitcoin Gold (BTG) is to make Bitcoin decentralized again. All the features and specifications of Bitcoin Gold is similar to Bitcoin except two aspects; per-block difficulty adjustment and ASIC resistant PoW algorithm. Their mission is to ensure that the system …

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C11 Algorithm – C11 Miner and list of all C11 Coins

coinguides — Tue, 29 May 2018 13:31:35 +0000

Miners will mine coins that are profitable at the moment. They’d like to try out new algorithms with their GPUs and they strictly stay away from ASIC algorithms. If the algorithm which they mine seems stable and smooth enough then they stick to it and try to find out more profitable coins that uses identical …

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How to mine MoneroV? and Wownero!? – Two new coins forked from Monero

coinguides — Tue, 15 May 2018 14:22:49 +0000

Wait! Are we discussing two coins in a single post? No, we are going to cover about 6 coins that’s been recently forked from Monero. There is not much details to add about these coins, but there is more awareness to be crated among the beginners. So more than just a mining guide this post …

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Bitmain Antminer Z9 Mini – New ASIC to mine Zcash and Equihash coins | 10K Sol/s?

coinguides — Thu, 03 May 2018 19:55:52 +0000

CryptoNight, Ethash and now it’s Equihash; we don’t know which algorithm is next. For a long period Equihash is an ASIC resistant mining algorithm and NVIDIA GPUs are known to solidly perform on Equihash. Also a large part of the Zcash network was engaged by NVIDIA miners and that’s due to the fact that they …

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ASIC resistance explained – What does it mean for a coin to be ASIC resistant?

coinguides — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 13:34:44 +0000

The key mechanism that lies behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin or basically any Cryptocurrency is Blockchain. The whole idea of Blockchain is that it is completely decentralized, meaning there is no centralized power to control anything. All transactions are recorded in a public ledger known as Blockchain and all transactions are verified by so called miners …

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