Mission Statement
To grow the coins adoption we have reached out beyond our friends in the crypto coin world to include team members from ufology, science, broadcasting and entertainment. These liaisons will help fuel adoption by introducing groups, industries and entire communities to the merits of joining the UFO ecosystem.
We are actively seeking partners with opportunities that further decentralization, promote open source technologies and broaden an individual’s accessibility to free market commerce world wide. The UFO Team will start posting developer bounties for new features, rewards for signing up merchants, social media campaigns and targeted airdrop promotions.
Technical Road Map and the Neoscrypt
UFO has now hard forked to use the NeoScrypt hashing algorithm in an effort to remain within the realm of GPU mining and keep away from ASIC production in the near future. NeoScrypt uses very strong elements compared to the current version of Scrypt which has already been broken by differential analysis. This affords better protection than blending different hashing solutions together. Our philosophy is that decentralization should be the main drive for the crypto protocol and thus everyone should be able the join the network and be part of it, not just the owners of expensive hardware.
The UFO network, after being updated to the latest available codebase, will add a
Lightning Network allowing rapid transactions, bi-directional payment channels, atomic swaps between other cryptocurrencies as well as many other features. Post
SegWit enablement, a web hosted wallet will be available with Multisig and SegWit address support and Raw Transaction tools. An overview of the development plan can be found under the roadmap section and more detailed information for current and past releases can be found in the news section on
websiteNeoscrypt WhitepaperBushstar's outstanding job brought the code up to date and secured it from vulnerabilities.
Technical Features
NeoScrypt - The newest hashing algorithm uses blended Salsa 20/20 and Chacha 20/20, Blake2s for hashing and FastKDF.
Read Whitepaper.
eHRC enhanced Hash Rate Calculation - Difficulty adjustment algorithm.
Time Warp Manipulability - Will be reduced to the point where its effect is negligible
Automatic Checkpointing - This vital feature for any coin prevents transaction roll back via 51% attacks
Coin SpecificationsProof of Work (PoW)
Neoscrypt hashing algorithm. CPU and GPU mining allowed.
90 sec block time
312.5 coins reward per block (Halving every 400k blocks)
4 billion coins total
6 confirmations per transaction
Coin created on 2nd of January 2014
Resources
UFO Core v0.18.0
The ufo.conf is now renamed to
ufocoin.conf since 0.9.0
Here is an example ufocoin.conf file:
rpcuser=ufouser
rpcpassword=6bjlvC5KKSjVyig5
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
server=0
rpcport=9888
port=9887
If you are short on nodes go to
https://www.coinexchange.io/network/peers/UFO copy the addnodes and paste them in your ufocoin.conf file
MINING
Please make sure that you are running NSGMiner 0.9.3 as the previous version 0.9.2 does not work with getblocktemplate. For solo mining, in your ufocoin.conf, set server=1. A good password should be a mixture of lowercase, uppercase and numbers - three classes of chars
NVIDIA Cards cannot be used for solo mining for the time being because the ccminer has not yet been updated to work with getblocktemplate in the newer 0.10+ codebase. CCminer (ccminer-1.6.3-git-tpruvo) has been confirmed to work with stratum just fine though.
Miner Software
Example config for R9 280X:
nsgminer --neoscrypt -w 128 -I 13 -o http://127.0.0.1:9888 -u username -p P4V5fgq3 --no-getwork --no-stratum --verbose --text-only --coinbase-addr BuWudvgPv9ni5iZR1yqSkqiPuvtESoLzqd
--thread-concurrency, --shaders, --vectors are not used for NeoScrypt. --intensity or -I is the primary performance optimiser. May be set between 8 and 20 according to your video card's memory size. For example, -I 16 means (2 ^ 16) GPU threads each of 32768 bytes = 2,147,483,648 bytes or 2Gb. There are some configuration tweaks available in neoscrypt.cl which might deliver a little bit of additional performance.
Exchanges
COINEXCHANGE.IO Block Explorers
BLOCK EXPLORER Charts, statistics
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