Huntercoin - Human minable - harvest coins in a game world inside the blockchain

I think this fascinating project deserves some attention. It is a significant innovation in the crypto-world. Huntercoin allows people without mining hardware to mine with their time/effort in the game.

Website: http://www.huntercoin.org

BitcoinTalk: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annhuc-huntercoin-worlds-first-decentralized-gameworld-on-the-blockchain-435170

Specifications from the Huntercoin website:

Human Mining – Control Hunters to harvest coins in another dimension using strategy, time & teamwork.
Dual Algorithm –SHA256 + Scrypt. Each algo has separate difficulty, both targeting 2 minute blocks. Both are Merge Mineable.. See http://wiki.chronokings.com/index.php?title=Mining
Total 10 coins Per Block – 1 to the miner, 8.75 onto the Map.
Crown of Fortune – 1 Unique Item on the map which will generate 0.25 HUCs per block
When a Hunter harvests coins and brings them back to a spawn area, the coins will materialize in their wallet, Miners will receive 10% of these ‘banked’ coins (TAX)
When a Hunter is killed, 4% of the coins they held will be taken by miners. The rest will be dropped to the ground.
Hardware Miners should receive in total (over time) ~20% of the Block Reward (2 Coins) + Player Death Taxes.
42 Million Total Coins
Retarget Every block based on last 2016 Blocks (for each algo separately) – PPC Style
Can be considered a basic decentralized P2P Massively Multiplayer Online Crypto Currency and Game, which takes place within the block chain.
Includes all relevant features of other crypto currencies.
Integrated Client Chat – Player can chat per block.
Serverless
Starting cost per Player is 1 HUC
View the in game World Live (currently showing closed beta world and oldish client) http://192.81.209.210:3000/

This is the first cryptocurrency besides Protoshares/Angleshares I have felt compelled to invest in since Bitcoin.

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