Hello, very short post here.
I want to make you all aware of mining opportunities for a new currency called BGPCoin.
BGPCoin is a Proof-of-Work currency that switches to Proof-of-Stake at block height 65535. There are approximately 12million coins in the money supply right now. New ones are generated by mining an 8 minute block with a block reward of 256 coins.
BGPCoin is intended to allow ISPs to settle bandwidth fees for things like peering, routing announcements, cross connects, dark fiber interconnects, and even data center rack space. In addition, this can be used for priority support and traffic routing. The name comes from Border Gateway Protocol, which is the protocol of choice for interacting between ISPs on the internet. With the end of Net Neutrality in the US, ISPs will have to be extremely conscious of their bandwidth charges.
The code is at https://github.com/bgpcoin/bgpcoin and you can download wallets at https://github.com/bgpcoin/wallets
The official mining pool is at https://pool.bgpcoin.com/ and starts on port 3008 for low difficulty.
We're working on the website and the whitepaper will be forthcoming. This is extremely new -- block height is in the mid three digits since it is only a few days old. There is a pre-mine which is being used to fund developer bounties and there will be a partial token sale with the intent of getting listed on several exchanges.
About the founder -- experienced technologist, former NASA Engineer, was CTO at a virtual reality company, and has both graduate and undergraduate degrees in finance.
There are bounties listed on in the github README that include coin bounties for getting us listed on an exchange! Enjoy and happy mining!
