AsicCoin - ASC
A SHA-256 crypto-currency, is based on Bitcoin version 0.8, with super random blocks. It is a coin for ASICs!
The following specifications are implemented:
- Each normal block has 1024 coins
- 30 seconds block time
- Difficulty retargets every 60 blocks (approximately 30 mins).
- mining payout will be halved every 3 months (259,200 blocks)
- Expected total mined coins will be 675,925,530 coins (not including 1 coin/block maintenance)
- 4 confirmations for transaction (2 mins)
- 70 confirmations for minted blocks
- The minimum payout will be maintained at 1 coin/block.[/li][/list]
Random bonus blocks are:
- 1/10 chance (about every 5 mins) for one 2048-coin block (2^11 coins)
- 1/100 chance (about every hour) for one 8096-coin block (2^13 coins)
- 1/10000 chance (about every 3.5 days) for one 65536-coin block (2^16 coins)
Ports:
- Connection: 13434
- RPC: 13435
No Premine
ASICCoin info also added to CoinWarz, which provides many info such as current block, diff, price, total coins, etc, a great site:
http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/coins/asiccoin
Official Website
http://asiccoin.biz
Exchanges
CoinEx:
https://coinex.pw/trade/asc_btc
Games
http://lotto.asic.co/
http://altcoingambling.com/16BitBet/ASC
Mining Pools
thcst8's p2pool:
http://www.japool.com:13433/static/
details: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3132165
sonicrules1234's Stratum/Getwork pool:
http://asc.sonicrules.org
Host: asc.sonicrules.org
Stratum Port: 3335
Getwork Port: 9002
Reward System: PPLNS
Fee: 1.5%
More details at https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annascpoolstratumpplns-sonicmine-pool-293132
CoinEx ASC Mining Pool:
https://coinex.pw/mining/pools/ASC
ialoarmstrong's Mining Pool:
http://mining.mike.kz
Feeleep's Stratum Mining Pool:
http://asc.coinmine.pl
Stratum Port: 6110
rav3n_pl p2pool:
http://rav3n.dtdns.net:9433
pawlak2 p2pool:
http://bit.usr.sh:9433
Network Hash Rate Graph
Total Network Speed Graph (thanks to powpow):
http://asc.block-chain.net/
Blockchain Explorer
http://bit.usr.sh:2750/chain/ASICcoin
Giveaway Thread
Thanks to hingolurallh
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/asiccoin-giveaway-295477
Downloads
Windows Client Download:
http://asiccoin.biz/downloads.php
Source Code Download:
https://github.com/asiccoin/asiccoin
Configurations
Use the following addnodes for initially connecting to the network:
addnode=173.71.201.121
addnode=14.161.68.183
addnode=192.3.79.186
addnode=98.214.94.227
Sample config file:
listen=1
server=1
rpcuser=**Yourusername**
rpcpassword=**Yourpassword**
rpcport=13435
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
addnode=173.71.201.121
addnode=14.161.68.183
addnode=192.3.79.186
addnode=98.214.94.227
How to Mine
1. Start up asiccoin-qt, wait for it to load, then exit.
2. Put asiccoin.conf (see sample file above) in your c:/users/**yourcomputername**/AppData/Roaming/AsicCoin
3. restart asiccoin-qt, and you should connect and sync.
4. For solo mining, launch cgminer or the mining program you use and begin mining.
cgminer ex: cgminer.exe -o localhost:13435 -u **yourusername** -p **password** (without **)