An alternative cryptocurrency disrupting the already rather disrupting crypto market.

Technical Information

• 120,000,000 coins
• 151 coins rewarded per block, halving every ~6 months
• 40 second block times
• difficulty retargeting using Kimoto Gravity Well

• replacement of ECDSA with Schnorr signing
• use of secp256r1 curve over secp256k1
• requirement for public key when verifying transactions
• modification to RPC interface s.t. public keys are Base64 encoded

Modifications to the RPC API

• verifymessage

Forked from Bitcoin reference wallet 0.8.5 and MaxCoin

Helixcoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.