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What is MaxCoin?

An alternative cryptocurrency disrupting the already rather disrupting crypto market.

Technical Information

  • 250,000,000 coins
  • 96 coins rewarded per block, halving every ~12 months
  • minimum reward of 1 coin per block
  • 30 second block times
  • difficulty retargeting using Kimoto Gravity Well

Notable differences from Bitcoin

  • 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

License

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

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