- Peercoin is an established and versatile project offering multiple wallet clients, numerous exchanges, and a robust community.
- For an in-depth overview of the project, Peercoin University is the best starting place. For more articles, Peercoin related information, check out our Medium Blog to find more writings.
- For those who are looking to develop, PeerAssets is Peercoin's second layer asset solution. More information can be found here.
+ For an in-depth overview of the project, Peercoin University is the best starting place. For more articles and writings on Peercoin, check out our Medium Blog.
+ For those who are looking to develop, PeerAssets is Peercoin’s second layer solution for tokens. More information can be found on our projects page.
A wealth of technical information can be found in the Peercoin Documentation as well.
- The Peercoin wallet is available on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux platforms.
- Command-line experiences are also available.
- To get started, check out the Wallet download page and the Installation guide's.
+ The Peercoin wallet is available on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux platforms. Command-line experiences are also available.
+ To get started, check out the wallet download page and the included installation guides. For more information on how to use the wallet, check the wallets documentation.
- Peercoin is available through a variety of exchanges and services. You can find a list of exchanges and services here.
- A guide to buying Peercoin is also available here.
+ Peercoin is available through a variety of exchanges and services. You can check here for a list.
+ A guide to buying Peercoin is also available here.
- The use of Proof-of-stake mining in Peercoin is efficient because network security is not dependent on the use of massive amounts of electrical energy (proof-of-energy-burn). Instead minters invest their coins and time to emulate the PoW process.
This is done by simply opening up their wallet app, sending coins to their address and letting them sit there while they are occasionally selected by the protocol to mint the next block. This process is both energy and cost efficient.
- You can find more information on minting in the Peercoin documentation.
+ 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.
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.
+ To learn how to mint, check out the minting section in the wallets documentation. More general information about minting can be found here.
- Peercoin uses the hashcash double iterated SHA-256 algorithm for Proof-of-Work mining. This means anything that any hardware that can mine Bitcoin can mine Peercoin as well.
- To get started, check out the Peercoin mining documentation.
+ 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.
+ To get started, check out the mining documentation.
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