Latest News:02-06-2014 - New Wallet/Daemon updates, network is now stable, following new domain/website ecocoin.in.
25-12-2013 - Latest Update, v2.2. (Stable version + new logo)
26-08-2013 - Important Update v2.1. (Fixed some issues with the network)
26-08-2013 - EcoCoin is launched.
07-08-2013 - EcoCoin is pre-announced.
EcoCoin is a crypto-currency based on PPC (Peercoin) using scrypt-jane with a combined PoW/PoS scheme. This currency has been developed serving the need of new ecologic solutions.
Specifications: - ~1% pre-mined for test purposes and bounties/official developments.
- 7 coins block reward depending on difficulty
- 15 minutes block spacing
- Difficulty starts @ 0.00024889
- Maximum of 10,200,000 coins
- 6 Confirmations for blocks
- 20 Confirmations for minted blocks
- NFactor from 4 to 30
- Proof-Of-Work/Proof-Of-Stake
- CoinControl from YaCoin
- Scrypt-Jane/YaCoin-based
- RPC-Port 22339
Bounties and Contests: 10 000-20 000eco - EcoCoin cooperative design. (Taken by jantenner81) 10 000-20 000eco - EcoShop @
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ecocoin-bounty-ecoshop-281813 10 000eco - Auto-Update @
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ecocoin-bounty-auto-update-feature-281807 10 000-20 000eco - Promotional Video @
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ecocoin-bounty-promotional-video-281808 100-5000eco - GitHub Adjustments - We are now bountying approved developments/adjustments made on the coin system, feel free to push on github and contact request the prize!
5000eco - Setup/Installer - Binaries/Source for Wallet installer auto setting up ecocoin.conf. (OSX/WIN/UNIX)
5000eco - Binaries/Source for a custom Miner based on YaCoin miner. (OSX/WIN/UNIX)
3000eco - Pool (3/5 rewarded)
(Note that the details for these bounties are simple, yet in some bounties you have a range prize, allowing you to sense this ECO subject and use your own creativity around it)
Recruitment:There is no leadership on this movement, therefor we feel the need for people with free-time to spend changing the world for the better, feel free to apply @
http://www.ecocoin.in/candidate .
Official Website @ http://www.ecocoin.inOfficial Explorer @ http://explorer.ecocoin.inOfficial Forum @ http://forum.ecocoin.inEcoCoin Giveaway @ https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/eco-giveaway-281803Official Twitter @ https://twitter.com/Eco_CoinOfficial Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/eco.coin.7Downloads:Windows Client Download:http://ecocoin.in/stuff/ecocoin-qt_win.zip (v2.4)
UNIX Client Download:http://ecocoin.iin/stuff/ecocoin-qt_unix.zip (v2.4)
Mac OS X Client Download:http://ecocoin.iin/stuff/ecocoin-qt_mac.zip (v2.4)
Source Code at Github:https://github.com/ecogroup/ecocoin.gitPools:Votes:Block-Explorers:Sample ecocoin.conf:rpcuser=**Yourusername**
rpcpassword=**Yourpassword**
rpcport=22339
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
daemon=1
server=1
listen=0
testnet=0
gen=0
maxconnections=100
Nodes: (confirmed v2.4)
addnode=188.226.149.172
addnode=188.226.208.187
How to mine: (Credits to our fellow ecologist miners)
1. Download miner @
http://www.ecocoin.in/stuff/scrypt-jane_gpu.zip2. Point to your pool using the following
janeminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://eco.coinmine.pl:7090 -u u -p u --scrypt --no-submit-stale --Nfmin 4 --Nfmax 30 --StartT 1376093465
Getting Started:1. Start up ecocoin-qt, wait for it to load, then exit.
2. Put ecocoin.conf (see sample file above) in your c:/users/**yourcomputername**/appdata/roaming/EcoCoin
3. restart ecocoin-qt, and you should connect and sync.