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/XPM_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 Explorerhttp://blockexplorer.coinworld.us/chain/AlphaCoinGaming Sites:http://lotto.coinworld.usDownloads:Windows Client (version 1.1) Download:
Mega.co.nz:
https://mega.co.nz/#!FkEihZCC!EJITlRang4BptpmRoIG3Pg6S8cdRehYkA-ZFut7BkwM
Google Disk:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-_dA_Dsnb3oWw1BSWgxw7Etb2M/edit?usp=sharingSource 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 **)
