Topic: [ANN] LEARNCOIN [LERN] - Scrypt clone coin with tutorial on how it's made! (Read 7894 times)

LEARNCOIN [LEARN] - The coin that helps you learn to make your own cryptocurrency!

Source: https://github.com/altcryptomining/learncoin
Windows Binaries: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d8pm4vp60zwglt0/learncoinwin-latest.zip
Virustotal for windows binaries: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3dc907392d61cddad739818689d7f723cc84a67b65e66c033e5b9a9ad9b5e30b/analysis/1449455467/

2nd opinion: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b7d8f52a5504414ed269b7259faba915c2345d5eaab727efc674525cfa94b8db/analysis/1449455160/

First Pool
Basic UNOMP - http://159.203.105.243

The coin that teaches you about creating your own cryptocurrency
I decided to create this coin for 2 reasons:
1. to show people how easy it is to create your own coin which can teach you a lot about command line interface, simple coding, git and just generally get into programming the easy way
2. to show people that they shouldn't necessarily buy into (or invest their mining power!) into any old coin that comes along, because as you'll see it's really not that hard, and why should you give money to some guy who spent like 4-5 hours doing some copying and pasting and tells you what he's "created" is the best coin there has ever been.

I don't expect this coin to be a huge hit, in fact it's probably full of bugs that will almost immediately break it if anyone starts mining.

What you will get out of this coin is the chance to follow along with me as I build the coin (I'm committing my whole day off today to doing this so I  hope you enjoy it)

Key Info / What you'll get:
A series of youtube videos that shows you every step of the way how to (poorly) "make" your own cryptocurrency.
A "dev" who wants to learn / be criticized along the way
A fair release. This is a scrypt coin and I've only got a single r9 280x so my premine will suck so ASICs feel free to jump on board. Who knows, it might even fork and I won't know how to fix it! How fun!
How I created the first pool which will be avaialble at launch (without a domain, because I'm too poor to buy one)

Coin Specs
Algo: Scrypt (cloned from Litecoin)
Block Reward: 50 LERNS
Block Time: 30s
Retarget: 5 minutes (10 blocks)
Total coins 84000000
Confirmations 20

Videos Below - note I just do one take on Open Broadcaster without any editing other than pausing the video to get a coke while shit compiles
(Just uploading to youtube now)

Episode 1:
Introduction / Explanations / OS Setup / Cloning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86jqAfySi64&list=PL3VHTMe_nFkyQKRus_py1WIRQr7FG2009

Episode 2
More cloning and generating merkle root
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENaTmbh8Xuw&feature=youtu.be

Episode 3
Hashing the genesis block
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jp65Uq_U30&feature=youtu.be

Episode 4:
Creating some "artwork"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z_ONhDseVE&feature=youtu.be

Episode 5:
Compiling for Windows and uploading to github
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF3oE5uIP64&feature=youtu.be

Episode 6:
Seeing it all running and pool starting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVPcmirqyOY&feature=youtu.be

Episode 7:
Profit???

Apparently I am 28 weeks behind on the Blockchain and there are no block sources available. Does this mean every single source of the Learncoin Blockchain is offline?