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Topic: The Big Two SHA256 & Scrypt - What else is out there? (Read 533 times)

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copperlark - double keccak 512
skeincoin - skein 512 + sha 256
blakecoin - blake 256 (8 rounds)
yacoin and forks - scrypt-jane with chacha mix function + keccak hmac + variable nfactor
memorycoin - scrypt-jane with different Nfactor, Pfactor, rfactor with loops and sha 512
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sifcoin - 6 diff algos, cloned by qrk and src
blakecoin - blake 256
copperlark and a couple others use sha-3
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So I am familiar with SHA256 and scrypt coins, I've heard of scrypt-jane and see IXcoin uses SHA1, but was wondering - what coins uses algorithms alternative to the big two (SHA256/Scrypt)?

I know of YACoin, but that's it. Any decent altcoins which use something else?

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