Argentum
http://www.argentum.ioFeatures: Argentum uses six cryptographic algorithms;
Scrypt with AUXPOW support (Merged Mining)
SHA256D with AUXPOW support (Merged Mining)
Lyra2REv2 (GPU)
Myriad-Groestl (GPU/ASIC)
Argon2d (CPU)
Yescrypt (CPU/GPU)
Max block size 10mb
3 ARG per block
Production: Blocks are discovered every 45 seconds and transactions are fully confirmed every 4.5 minutes. 64 Million total Argentums will be mined. Once this limit is reached, it is increased by 1.1% annually, the rate of human population growth.
Security: Mined blocks mature after 100 confirmations
Argentum Version 4.14.4 Minor tweaks to increase the speed of initial blockchain download
Argentum Version 4.14.3Adds 4 new mining algorithms (Activates at block 2,977,000)
Lyra2re2 (GPU)
Myr-Groestl (GPU/ASIC)
Argon2d (CPU)
Yescrypt (CPU/GPU)
Argentum Version 4.14.2These are just a few of the hundreds of enhancements with this new release
BIP112 (CheckSequenceVerify) soft fork
BIP146 Argentum will hard fork at block 2,977,000 (around March 13th 2018) to implement BIP146
Signature validation using libsecp256k1
Direct headers announcement (BIP 130)
Automatically use Tor hidden services
Notifications through ZMQ
BIP9 softfork deployment
Linux ARM builds
Compact Block support (BIP 152)
Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation (HD wallets)
Substantial improvments to the client load time.
Argentum was created mid 2013 with the following criteria:
Argentum is fast, unique, and secure. We have learned from many of the past crypto-currencies and created one that can rival any. Argentum brings innovation and experimentation by combining interesting aspects of other crypto-currencies and adding unique features.
Argentum is designed to gain value over time and to be a rare commodity that is easily and quickly transferable. The innovation doesn't end there, Argentum is the first crypto-currency to increase transaction processing capabilities over those of bitcoin. With the Bank of Argentum, the ARG/DGC exchange, and other commodity related services on the way, there is a bright future for this coin.
Argentum is secure, rare, and unique. The combination of all its characteristics provide a:
Longterm stable investment
Growth potential based on services
Diversification into less risky crypto-currency
Secure quasi-instantaneous transaction processing
Taken from the most active ARG BitcoinTalk threads here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2767706 & https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annarg-argentum-fast-optimized-unique-innovation-0-orphans-231524.
The original info is mostly defunct on those threads, hence this new ANN Also in the very earliest original launch thread from the original developer AlphaC, there would seem to have been some kind of pre-mine which was used to pay for services rendered to Baritus. So for clarity I will state that there was a historical pre-mine at the beginning of what seems to have been around 200,000 ARG.
This pre-mine now will no longer matter as there would seem to be in the regions of over 3.5 million ARG locked in accounts that may be lost to the original holders.
We will move on from the past in a New Beginning for Argentum, eventually cutting ties with the original incarnation.
Current short-term goals: -Mining diversification - adding Lyra2REv2, Myr-Groestl, Argon2d, and Yescrypt
-Coinomi Mobile wallet (awaiting merge at Coinomi's repo) They will be more likely to add if you ask them to add it
-Merchant integration
-Poloniex
-Bittrex
-Shapeshift.io
Current release (v4.14.3): Wallet Source:
https://github.com/argentumproject/argentum Wallet:
https://github.com/argentumproject/argentum/releases Coinvault.io:
https://www.coinvault.io/Pools: Litecoinpool.org: They merge mine, but only pay out in LTC. Mergemining.com:
https://mergemining.com/ (Status unknown) Prohashing:
http://www.prohashing.com/ (Scrypt) ZPOOL:
http://www.zpool.ca/ (SHA256) Blockmunch:
http://blockmunch.club/ (SHA256)
P2Pool (All Algorithms)https://github.com/argentumproject/p2pool-argentum/BlockExplorer: CryptoID:
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/arg/Market Info: CoinMarketCap:
http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/argentum/#charts CoinGecko:
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/argentum CoinHills:
https://www.coinhills.com/market/arg/Exchanges: Bitsquare:
http://bitsquare.io CoinExchange:
https://www.coinexchange.io/market/ARG/BTC Cryptopia:
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=ARG_BTC Novaexchange:
https://novaexchange.com/market/BTC_ARG/Mining: https://www.whattomine.com/coins/158-arg-scrypt
