What is MaxCoin?

Maxcoin is an alternative cryptocurrency introduced in 2014.

Technical Information

• ~100,000,000 coins
• 8 coins rewarded per block, halving every 4 years - last halving 16 July 2017
• 60 second block times
• difficulty retargeting using a time-warp resistant implementation of KGW

Notable differences from Bitcoin

• sha3 Keccak encryption instead of sha256
• replacement of ECDSA with Schnorr signing (Schnorr Signatures)
• use of secp256r1 curve over secp256k1
• requirement for public key when verifying transactions
• capable of hosting smart contracts
• no premine

Modifications to the RPC API

• verifymessage
• makekeypair [hex-encoded prefix]
• dumppubkey

Additional technical details can be found on Everipedia (https://everipedia.org/wiki/maxcoin-cryptocurrency/) or in the Wiki.

Forked from Bitcoin reference wallet 0.8.5 and Blakecoin

License

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