Reposted with no explanation:
I took a quick look at this coin, this is what I found:
- dev premined heavily on this. He first premined 2,000,000 coins (first 200 blocks), called it "bounty"
- then insiders heavily mined all the 1000-coin blocks. Said they "should be a day", was finished in just 2-3 hours. This is about another 2,000,000 coins.
- after that (about 2pm 5/15), some limited people may start mining, the 1st 2500 blocks (corresponding to 4 millions coins) are already grabbed by the insiders.
- it was not until 6pm that day, a formal announcement was made about this coin (
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--206377 - there was a pre-announcement thread before, which later becomes the main thread), by that time, 8000+ blocks are gone. This corresponds to an unbelievable 7,000,000 coins.
Guys, does it make any sense to mine a coin like this?? It is complete garbage.
You can check the time stamps in the blockchain broswer yourself!
I was wondering why on their coin spec it said the first 200 blocks had 10,000coins, I first thought it was a typo as there were some other typos on the page.
GLDCoin - a lite version of Litecoin using scrypt as a proof of work scheme.
2.5 minute block targets
Block reawrds in order:
200 Block @ 10000 GLD
2000 Blocks @ 1000 GLD
24000 Blocks @ 500 GLD
22500 Blocks @ 400 GLD
125000 Blocks @ 200 GLD
500000 Blocks @ 100 GLD
~100 million total coins
https://github.com/gldcoin/gldcoinMake an interesting contrast to look at the DGC coin launch specs:
Specifications
Algorithm: Scrypt
Block Time: 20 seconds - Enough time to minimize orphans but still provide almost instant transactions.
Difficulty: Starts at 0.00024414 - It will take 6-8 difficulty adjustments (or ~13000 blocks) to reach desired difficulty of 1. It re-targets quickly to adjust to the environment, so stability should not be much of an issue. Miners should also find the system adjusts fast enough to be up to date, but not so fast as to make the environment unpredictable and unstable. 6 hours is target time. Every 1080 blocks(6 hours @ 20 seconds per block), the network scales the difficulty accordingly. Example: If target is 6 hours and it took 3 hours to find 1080 blocks, difficulty will increase 200%.
Reward: 20 coins per block, halved every 3 years - Consistent rewards encourage miners to support the network long term. Loyalty is rewarded. This also reduces volatility by setting the foundation on a stable path. Due to the fair launch policy, block rewards will grow in value until they reach the 20 coins per block reward. More details below. 4730400 blocks total.
Coin cap: 200 million.
Block confirmations: 5.
Fair Launch
Block
1080 - Difficulty up until here is 0.00024414. Block reward of 2.
2160 - Difficulty up until here is 0.00024414. Block reward of 1.
3240 - Difficulty up until here is 0.00097656. Block reward of 2.
4320 - Difficulty up until here is 0.00390624. Block reward of 5.
5400 - Difficulty up until here is 0.01562496. Block reward of 8
6480 - Difficulty up until here is 0.06249984. Block reward of 11.
7560 - Difficulty up until here is 0.24999936. Block reward of 14
8640 - Difficulty up until here is 0.98165069. Block reward of 17.
Difficulty will then rise to 1 and the block rewards to 20. The purpose of this is to give a period of time for miners to know about digitalcoin before others can mine too much of it and cause hoarding. The figures above can shift depending on the hash power of the network to smooth the difficulty rise to ~1 level
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/anndgc-digitalcoin-multi-algo-masternodes-established-2013-209508