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http://www.marscoin.org

http://www.marscoinfoundation.org

Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Bitcoin Developers

Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Litecoin Developers

Copyright (c) 2013-2023 Marscoin Developers

What is Marscoin?

Marscoin targets to become the blockchain for Mars, and functions as a proof of concept for incentivizing and privatizing space exploration funding.

  • scrypt Litecoin-based cryptocurrency
  • DarkGravityWave network protection
  • confirmation block every 2 Mars minutes (123 seconds)
  • subsidy halves every Mars year (668 sols)
  • 721 blocks per sol
  • 6.25 coins per block
  • 40 million total coins by 2024
  • 1M donation for non-profit The Mars Society
  • developed and supported by The Marscoin Foundation, LLC (a non-profit).

For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Marscoin client sofware, see http://www.marscoin.org and http://www.marscoinfoundation.org

License

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

Development

Are you a developer with interest in space exploration? Would you like to explore technology that will be useful on a future human settlement on Mars? Join us on Gitter/marscoin and Discord. More info at marscoin.org/community

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