THIS IS A NEW THREAD FOR ALPHACOIN.The original thread was not being maintained by the original developer.
This resulted in many broken links in the first post.
Please use this thread from now on. I will maintain the first post.
If you have pools that you want listed, please send me a PM with the info and I'll add them.
The newest alt coin - AlphaCoin has arrived! Alphacoin is a clone from Litecoin, using scrypt.
Version 1.1 released, more checkpoints, more secure! Download the new client below. Fixed the Litecoin message issue.Specifications:- 30 seconds block target
- 4 confirms per transaction. So every transaction will be confirmed in 2 mins.
- Difficulty retargets every 30 mins, that is every 60 blocks. Also using accelerated retargets at the beginning to completely avoid instamining.
- Total 210,182,000 coins.
- To encorage early adoption the coins per block is high for the first 3 days (block time):
- 1st day: 500 coins per block
- 2nd day: 200 coins per block
- 3rd day: 100 coins per block
- Starting 4th day, it will be 50 coins per block, will be halved every two years (or 2073600 blocks).
- First 1000 blocks of 1000 coins each are premined. This
is used for bounty of various needs. Also the 1000 blocks
are used for checkpoints.
- connection port is 9538, RPC-port 9539
- Scrypt
Exchanges:Cryptsy.com:https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/57Coins-e.comhttps://www.coins-e.com/exchange/ALP_BTC/Mining Pools:Stratum Pool:
http://alpha.miningpool.coStratum only: stratum+tcp://alpha.miningpool.co:8822
A New Pool:
http://alf.ahmedbodiwala.tk/index.php?page=statistics&action=poolp2p Pool:
http://coinworld.us:8881/static/new pool from nordicminers:
http://alf.nordicminers.euSmall Time Miner Alphacoin Pool
http://alf.smalltimeminer.comProportional Payouts. Full Block Rewards. 1% Fee.
Stratum Only: stratum+tcp://smalltimeminer.com:3335
Faucets: http://alph.a.gp/index.php (bounty sent)
https://sites.google.com/site/alphacoinfaucet/ (still pending verification)
Blockchain ExplorerDirect IP:
http://107.170.240.40/chain/AlphacoinVia DNS:
http://alphacoin.chickenkiller.com/chain/AlphacoinGaming Sites:http://lotto.coinworld.usDownloads:Windows Client (version 1.1) Download:
Mega.co.nz:
http://tinyurl.com/pd4pv64Source Code at Github:
https://github.com/alphacoin/alphacoinSample alphacoin.conf:listen=1
daemon=1
server=1
rpcuser=**Yourusername**
rpcpassword=**Yourpassword**
rpcallowip=10.1.1.*
rpcport=9539
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
addnode=77.93.223.245
addnode=83.67.76.64
addnode=71.94.45.245
addnode=37.251.46.230
Getting Started:1. Start up alphacoin-qt, wait for it to load, then exit.
2. Put alphacoin.conf (see sample file above) in your c:/users/**yourcomputername**/appdata/roaming/Alphacoin
3. restart alphacoin-qt, and you should connect and sync.
4. For solo mining, launch cgminer or whatever mining program you like and begin mining.
cgminer ex: cgminer.exe --scrypt -o localhost:9539 -u **yourusername** -p **password** (without **)
