All Things Alt: Vertcoin Gets Hot, a Bitcoin-Backed Coin and a Crypto Confession
This week, we've seen new coins come, old ones go and, in between, a pump and dump or two. Ups and downs aside, like every other week in alternative digital currency, it was a week that produced some interesting news. Read on for just a slice of the never-ending surprises coming out of the alt world today. A mineable alt backed by bitcoin mining. Digital currencies backed up by some sort of asset aren't necessarily new. There are several altcoins that are pegged to the value of gold, silver or other precious metals. Others buttress the market price through multipool arrangements - this is....
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Editor's Note: Vertcoin Development team has released a new update last night, just after this article was originally published with the title: "Vertcoin Community Uneasy With Developer Silence." In the digital currency community, transparency is one of the foundations of the movement. While the Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto remains anonymous, this is not normally the case with most altcoins in current circulation. With the Vertcoin markets currently dipping down, the community is calling for more communication from its developers who have recently fallen silent. CCN. "As a miner and....
If you have heard of the ominous Titan from KNC capable of hashing at 300 mh/s on scrypt, or perhaps the gridseeds or any other scrypt asics, a algorithm that was designed to be anti-asic and you’re a miner, you are most likely searching for the next coin to mine. Take Vertcoin into consideration as that coin. Here are some Vertcoin coin specifications. Vetcoins has a 84 million Vertcoin max coin supply with block times of 2 and a half minutes, 50 coin block rewards, KGW difficulty adjustment to discourage multipools, and block halving every 4 years or so. But where it really shines is its....
Vertcoin does not think Zerocoin implementation would be a good move. Over the past few weeks, there have been rumors that Vertcoin could soon implement a variation of Zerocoin to enhance privacy and anonymity in this particular cryptocurrency. I recently talked with Paul Bradley, one of the developers of Vertcoin, to clear the air on what kinds of features we are going to see added to Vertcoin in the near future. While Bradley stated Zerocoin implementation is probably off the table due to the negatives outweighing the positives, there are are still a few privacy-enhancing features that....
Vertcoin has been gaining momentum since my last article, "Vertcoin Most 'Active' Coin" was written. Hopefully, that indicates that the method of analysis used has some merit. I used a 'coin activity index' to compare the prospects of the top 12 coins by market cap. Vertcoin scored highest followed by Dogecoin. I would like compare those two coins again by putting them in a head to head matchup. The reason is that Vertcoin has been steaming up the list of coins by market cap on Cryptocoincharts. Meanwhile Dogecoins performance has been rather lackadaisical either indicating a loss of meme....
If you didn’t know already, Vertcoin is an ASIC-resistant coin, one of the first coins I found out about andwrote about. Vertcoin with has been slowly dropping in market cap over the last few days, but that hasn’t discouraged the community with releases such as the Stealth Address, and now the POW change to Lyra2. Below is a short video explaining stealth addresses more in-depth. Vertcoin aims to be the cryptocurrency of choice for personal and business use. We were the first to offer Stealth Addresses protecting everyone’s right to privacy on the blockchain. We believe this to be a much....