Today I want to write about BitcoinZ (BTCZ) which was released and launched in September 2017. BTCZ saw a fair lunch with no ICO, no pre-mine, no fixed Dev Fee. The announcement post can be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2166510.0 Before getting into details - the most remarkable property of BTCZ is the decentralisation and community effort ! There is no Main Webpage but you can find the White paper here: https://bitcoinz.global/media/Community_Paper_Final.pdf Summary of the main characteristics: Proof of Work (POW) -> Equihash Algorithm (same as ZEC, ZEN, BTG) 21 Billion coins Currently 12500 coins every 2.5 minutes Block Halving after 4 years similar to BTC Privacy of ZEC BTCZ is heavily community driven - there are many mining pools with a low fee that is donating to the community wallet. The wallet currently has a balance of 2.5 M coins. https://btczexplorer.blockhub.info/address/t1fHHnAXxoPWGY77sG5Zw2sFfGUTpW6BcSZ The funds in the wall
Today I want to present you Bitcore (BTX) - a virtual fork of Bitcoin launched in April 2017. The official Website of the project: https://bitcore.cc What are the main differences compared to other coins or what brought my attention to BTX? 21 Million Coins 10 MB Blocksize 2.5 min Blocktime GPU Friendly Mining Algorithm Timetravel 10 New distribution concept Especially the last point needs further explanation. There are two possibilities to receive BTX coins: Participate in the weekly airdrop (currently every Monday 4% of your BTX Balance - in January this will increase to 5%) Claim BTX with the latest BTC snapshot (you need your BTC private keys and at least 0.01 BTC Balance at the time of the Snapshot) To be eligible for the weekly airdrop you need to complete the following steps: Download the BTX Wallet from the project site https://bitcore.cc Browse to https://www.bitcore.cc/airdrop.php and register your address by providing the public key and the sig