Someone have asked how GroestlCoin is related to Groestl developers. Well, here's how:
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Christian Rechberger ****
9:35 PM (33 minutes ago)
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Hi src, thanks for your email.
It is interesting for us to learn about this development, thanks for letting us know.
All the best with this project!
-The Grøstl team
On 04/08/2014 11:23 AM, src xxx wrote:> Hello!
>
> I apologize in advance for my email. I know that you are serious people
> and probably are not interested in Bitcoin and altcoin.
>
> But I wanted to let you know, that a new crypto coin "GroestlCoin" has
> been born 2 weeks ago and it is using your hashing function. I've been
> appointed the developer of this coin today and I wanted to show my respects.
>
> I haven't written the GroestlCoin code myself, but am planning to
> promote this coin from now on.
>
> If you have any comments (especially good ones), that would be great.
>
> Here's a link if you are
> interested:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/anngrs-groestlcoin-1st-to-activate-segwit-building-lightning-network-525926> Website: groestlcoin.com
>
> PS: Theoretically, this is the 2nd coin that's using your hashing
> function. First is myriadcoin, but it is using sha256+Groestl. While
> GroestlCoin is two rounds of Groestl hashing.
>
> Thank you
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