All Things Alt: Advanced Algorithms, Maxcoin Reborn and a Second Lap for Dogecoin
Josh Wise has won the online NASCAR vote thanks to the dogecoin community's efforts. According to NASCAR, Wise was quoted as saying: "That's unreal. I can't believe that. That's amazing. Thank you everybody watching." Wise and his team will now take part in tomorrow's 2014 Sprint All-Star Race in Charlotte. It was another strong week in the world of alternative digital currencies, as several coins saw impressive price gains while developers sparked renewed activity in some established coin communities. While there's always plenty of action in the alt world, here are some of the more....
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MaxCoin has delayed it's official launch for 24 hours, following the site's crash due to heavy loading. First came Coinye West, then RonPaulCoin. Now, the celebrity altcoin is taking the next step in its evolution with today's launch of MaxCoin, the official cryptocurrency of financial journalist and host of RT's Keiser Report, Max Keiser. MaxCoin marks the first time a virtual currency will be endorsed by a pop culture figure prior to its launch. On 28th January, Keiser even participated directly in the mining of MaxCoin's genesis block on episode 555 of Keiser Report: What is MaxCoin?....
The summer of 2014 is really heating up in the alternative cryptocurrency world. What will the next few months bring for altcoins? We can all agree that, well, nobody is certain. To get a perspective on the possible road ahead, All Things Alt caught up with Max Keiser, host of The Keiser Report, guru for maxcoin, and one of the leading voices behind StartCOIN, a new altcoin-powered crowdfunding initiative. Read on to see what Keiser had to say about alt investment, maxcoin and the inherent political nature of digital currencies. The case for altcoins. Keiser suggested that altcoins are a....
As those who caught the 555th episode of his show on RT will know, Max Keiser is about to launch a new altcoin. The official launch of Maxcoin will be this Wednesay (the 5th) at 19:30 GMT. Technical Details. Maxcoin will employ SHA-3 hashing, known as Keccak (“ketch-ack”). As no GPU mining software and certainly no ASIC hardware is currently configured for SHA-3, MAX will hit the scene as a CPU-minable coin. If MAX is successful, it probably won’t take long for someone to figure out the implementation of GPU mining. Difficulty retargeting via Kimoto Gravity Well will limit pool-hopping and....
First they came for SHA256, and before you knew it, you couldn't mine any amount of Bitcoin with your PC anymore. Soon, you couldn't even make money with a GPU rig. Then they came for SCRYPT, changing the game for Litecoin, Dogecoin, and similar currencies. In response, in hopes of keeping the network truly decentralized and opportunistic for all, other algorithms were put together. X11, X13, X15, all of these are composed of a number of algorithms, the purpose being to outsmart application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The first successful X11 coin was Darkcoin last year, which....
Dogecoin has been pushed recently as a payment method for various things. Things like the Dogecoin festival accepting payments for tickets in Dogecoin. And Mark Cuban announcing his basketball team, the Dallas Mavericks, would start accepting payments in Doge. But one that the community had been waiting for was being able to pay for Tesla […]