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<h1 class="title_home" style="margin-top: 0vw; margin-bottom: 2vw">Pioneer of Proof of Stake</h1>
<p class="desc">The world's first efficient and sustainable public blockchain, serving as a secure base layer and cryptocurrency for the future blockchain connected world.</p>
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<h1 class="titlethick">Efficient Security</h1>
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Peercoin (PPC) first came online in 2012, making it one of the earliest
pioneering blockchains. The key innovation of Peercoin is its invention
of proof-of-stake, an alternative consensus protocol to Bitcoin’s proof-of-work. <br/><br/>
Proof-of-work blockchains are secured by proving the consumption of a costly
limited resource: electricity. Proof-of-stake replaces this expensive security
protocol by utilizing an alternative scarce resource: time.<br/><br/>
Due to the cost efficient nature of proof-of-stake’s time based consensus rules,
Peercoin is capable of allowing any network connected computer to participate in
the blockchain’s security process. This efficiency strengthens Peercoin by growing
the number of security providers and ensuring that security can be sustained over the long-term.
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In Peercoin, coin owners (stakeholders) are the ones who wield influence over
the network, produce new blocks, and secure the chain. Stakeholders of Peercoin
co-own the blockchain and collectively decide its future through protocol voting.<br/><br/>
Voting is carried out the same way Peercoin is secured, through a process called
proof-of-stake minting. Stakeholders participate in minting simply by installing
the version of Peercoin they support, loading their wallet with PPC, and holding
them while they are occasionally selected by Peercoin’s protocol to mint the next
block in the chain. Every minted block rewards stakeholders with new PPC and a vote.<br/><br/>
This makes Peercoin the first blockchain capable of allowing its protocol rules to
be governed directly by its users, making for a network that is more decentralized,
democratic, and easily secured by people around the world.
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Given that the blockchain is immutable by its very nature and all recorded data
is stored forever, chain bloat becomes an escalating problem at higher usage
levels which harms both security and the ability of the network to scale. <br/><br/>
To preserve the trustless security of the blockchain and ensure its ability to scale
to global usage levels, Peercoin’s inventors tailored the blockchain and its economics
to fulfill the specific role of base layer settlement network.<br/><br/>
This role focuses Peercoin development on modularity, keeping the protocol simple and
secure with as few features as possible, while maintaining the blockchain as a stable
base upon which any number of additional layers can be built on top.<br/><br/>
Rather than being coded directly into the blockchain protocol itself, features like
tokens and smart contracts are developed as secondary layer protocols that exist on
top of Peercoin. Building additional functionality as separate, independent layers
helps protect the base layer blockchain from exposure to new exploits and prevents
chain bloat by allowing for off-chain scaling solutions.
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Effective cryptocurrencies have fair distributions that are wide enough to
ensure the overall coin supply does not get concentrated into the hands of
too few people. This is especially important for a cryptocurrency like
Peercoin where stakeholders are responsible for securing the network.<br/><br/>
However a problem exists for blockchains that are run purely on proof-of-stake,
as there is no easy way to fairly distribute the initial coin supply. In a pure
proof-of-stake network, the entire coin supply is created from scratch by the
project maintainer, who then chooses which individuals get to own stake. This
manual distribution process often ends in a network with highly centralized security.<br/><br/>
To solve this problem, Peercoin’s founders utilized proof-of-stake for network
security and proof-of-work for distribution. Proof-of-work miners are rewarded
with new PPC generated by the network. This newly mined PPC is then sold on
exchanges by miners for profit and purchased by new stakeholders who can use
it to mint blocks by participating in proof-of-stake minting.<br/><br/>
So while proof-of-stake provides security directly, proof-of-work is designed
to do so indirectly by strengthening the decentralization of the network through
a wider distribution of PPC to new potential minters. This continual distribution
works to grow the number of security providers over time.
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Efficiency, sustainability, user governance, scalability through modularity,
and a fair distribution. All these qualities combine to form a long-term minded
blockchain network that is primarily focused on maximizing decentralization.<br/><br/>
This primary focus works to preserve the trustless, immutable and censorship
resistant nature of Peercoin so that it can always be relied upon to fulfill its
core role as a distributed mechanism for securely storing all types of value.<br/><br/>
This value can be anything from fiat wealth being stored in PPC, to data being stored
on the chain in the form of tokens, records, or contracts. Regardless of the type of
value that is being stored, Peercoin was built with the fundamentals in mind to always
ensure that your data remains safe and secure.
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For an in-depth overview of the project, <a href="https://university.peercoin.net/" class="intext">Peercoin University</a> is the best starting place. For more articles and writings on Peercoin, check out our <a href="https://medium.com/peercoin" class="intext">Medium Blog</a>.<br><br>
For those who are looking to develop, PeerAssets is Peercoin’s second layer solution for tokens. More information can be found on our <a href="projects.html" class="intext">projects</a> page.<br><br>
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Peercoin is available through a variety of exchanges and services. You can <a href="resources.html#exchanges" class="intext">check here for a list</a>.<br><br>
A guide to buying Peercoin is also available <a href="https://docs.peercoin.net/#/purchase" class="intext">here</a>.
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The <a href="wallet.html" class="intext">Peercoin wallet</a> is available on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux platforms.<br> <br>
Command-line experiences are also available.<br><br>
To get started, check out the Wallet download page and the Installation guide's.
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Proof-of-stake minting is an efficient process where stakeholders mint new blocks for the network. These blocks contain transactions that were initiated by users of the network. The role of the minter is to process these blocks of transactions and provide security for the network. <br><br>Minting is an energy and cost efficient process, which makes it possible for stakeholders to participate using many different types of devices. Stakeholders participate in minting simply by installing the version of Peercoin they support, loading their wallet with PPC, and holding them while they are occasionally selected by Peercoin’s protocol to mint the next block in the chain. Every minted block rewards stakeholders with new PPC. <br><br>
To learn how to mint, check out the minting section in the <a href="https://docs.peercoin.net/#/wallets" class="intext">wallets documentation</a>. More general information about minting can be found <a href="https://docs.peercoin.net/#/peercoin-minting-behaviour" class="intext">here</a>.
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Peercoin uses the hashcash double iterated SHA-256 algorithm for proof-of-work mining. This means any hardware that can mine Bitcoin can mine Peercoin as well.<br><br>
To get started, check out the <a href="https://docs.peercoin.net/#/mining" class="intext">mining documentation</a>.
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Join our <a href="https://talk.peercoin.net/" class="intext">Forum</a>, <a href="https://discord.gg/XPxfwtG" class="intext">Discord</a>, or <a href="https://t.me/peercoin" class="intext">Telegram</a> to chat with other Peercoin community members and developers. Subscribe to our <a href="https://twitter.com/PeercoinPPC" class="intext">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/peercoin" class="intext">Reddit</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/peercoin" class="intext">Medium Blog</a>, or <a href="https://peercoin.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=654917bb4b69bbc6d026587a9&id=222c7e0877" class="intext">Newsletter</a> to stay up to date with all the latest Peercoin news. Check <a href="resources.html#communities" class="intext">here</a> for a list of all other community resources.<br><br>
Important updates can also be delivered directly to your mobile device through platforms like <a href="https://blockfolio.com/" class="intext">Blockfolio</a>, <a href="https://delta.app/" class="intext">Delta</a>, and <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/" class="intext">CoinGecko</a>. Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest news.
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