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Validators & Delegators in Staking – Who Validates and who Delegates?

coinguides — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 09:11:40 +0000

Staking Validators & Delegators. What are validators and delegators of a blockchain? Differences between validator and delegator. What is a token delegation and how they function. What are the requirements and incentives for validators and delegators? This post is everything you need to know about validator and delegator. Many cryptocurrencies are based on blockchain technology. …

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What is Energi (NRG) crypto? Coin features, specifications & wallet setup

coinguides — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 12:59:53 +0000

Cryptocurrency market is slowly recovering. At least the price of Bitcoin, Ethereum and many other altcoins looks much better than it did 2 months ago. While this is the scenario of most cryptocurrencies there are some coins that have hit its all time high price recently. Is this the start of Alt season? Well, whatever. …

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Qubit algorithm – Miners (ASIC) & list of coins with Qubit PoW algorithm

coinguides — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 13:21:55 +0000

Cryptocurrency miners have used various types of hardware to mine blocks. Initially people used their computer’s CPU power to mine Bitcoin blocks. Then to enhance the hashrate users added graphics hardware which drastically outperformed CPU mining. Then slowly special purpose ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) were designed to mine Bitcoin. Currently only users who own …

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Skein PoW algorithm – Skein ASIC miner and list of coins based on Skein

coinguides — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:23:53 +0000

There are a large number of Proof of Work algorithms available but not all of the algorithms can be mined by a regular user. The profitability of mining an algorithm / coin depends on the kind of equipment that you intend to use. Some are CPU mineable; some are GPU friendly and some algorithms are …

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Lyra2REv2 Algorithm – List of Coins & Lyra2v2 Miners for NVIDIA / AMD

coinguides — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:33:50 +0000

With the rise of ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) mining; standard hardware’s like CPUs and GPUs are being pushed out of the game. Most cryptocurrencies that claims to have ASIC resistant algorithm are not actually resistance to ASIC. They say this because there are no ASICs or FPGAs developed …

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What is a premine? & What are some top cryptocurrencies that pre-mined?

coinguides — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:48:35 +0000

Fair distribution of wealth has nothing to do with mass adoption. Of course USD is not distributed fairly but it is the most widely accepted currency. But what about Cryptocurrencies? They are decentralized but are they fairly distributed? Even with Bitcoin, Litecoin and many other top cryptocurrencies only the extreme minority controls them. It doesn’t …

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Staking vs Masternodes: Difference between Masternodes & Proof of Stake

coinguides — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:51:51 +0000

Masternodes and Staking: In cryptocurrency they both are a system that is known to provide passive income. But is that it; just paying interest or there is more to it? What are the difference between them, how do they work and in what ways do they benefit the network? Before we see the pros and …

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Grøstl Algorithm – Groestl PoW algorithm coins and miners

coinguides — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 13:54:36 +0000

Previously we made an article about Keccak hashing algorithm which is a member of SHA family. Another one which we covered about is Blake2b (Blake). This one doesn’t come under SHA family but is one of the SHA-3 finalist chosen by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). Here comes another finalist called Grøstl. Along …

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How to mine XDNA coin? Mining HEX algorithm using NVIDIA and AMD GPUs

coinguides — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:34:50 +0000

XDNA is a new hybrid PoW / PoS cryptocurrency which has masternodes and few other innovations. When XDNA was first announced it came up with three main features such as BitGun, T.N.T (Triple Node Technology) and Dual Mining. In our XDNA guide we’ve covered about BitGun and T.N.T which you can go through it if …

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Staking “generated but not accepted” – PoS transaction: orphan / conflicted

coinguides — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:25:13 +0000

Proof of Stake (PoS) is an alternative to Proof of Work (PoW) consensus mechanism. Ethereum; which currently uses Proof of Work will soon update the network consensus protocol to Proof of Stake. Not just Ethereum but many popular Cryptocurrencies uses Proof of Stake consensus mechanism. Some of the well known coins are PIVX, PacCoin, Linda …

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