Einsteinium: Creating Wormholes and Epochs In Scrypt Mining
What is Einsteinium? Einsteinium is an altcoin using a Scrypt PoW algorithm with approximately 300 million coins, short named as EMC2. Einsteinium is unique on its own due to a very interesting halving system, and the mining itself is divided in what they call as Epochs. An epoch lasts for 36000 blocks as well as 25 days. The mining of Einsteinium lasts for 730 Epochs in which block rewards are lowered. I find this to be a very nice idea, it is nothing I have seen before to divide the mining in certain stages in which halving happens as well as to have events during mining in which miners....
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