BEC (BitEtherCoin) is an Ethereum Classic coin, issued per each block as a reward to the miner.
It follows Bitcoin’s coin Supply Model, with:
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21M BEC coins total
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0.00000001 BEC = 1 BECsatoshi
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Halving each new era
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7th era (99.2% coins) ends at about 2034 (for BTC it’s 2036)
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13th era (99.99% coins) ends at 2048 (for BTC it’s 2060)
Specific details:
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mining starts at block 2,726,892
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Era size is 5250000 Ethereum blocks
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starts with 2 BEC reward per ETC block (instead of 50, because Ethereum block time is much smaller)
To claim block reward there should be a special transaction in the block, which calls contract method claim(). This
transaction could be sent from any address, but only an actual miner for current block will receive reward tokens.
Mainnet (ETC): 0x085fb4f24031eaedbc2b611aa528f22343eb52db
You can install this address as a standard Ethereum token into your Mist or other wallet (see ABI below).
To claim block reward there should be a special transaction in the block, which calls contract method claim(). This
transaction could be sent from any address, but only an actual miner for current block will receive reward tokens.
For example you can send such transaction before each block by execution following command:
curl --request POST \
--url http://localhost:8545/ \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"eth_sendTransaction", "params":[{"from":"0xANY_UNLOCKED_ADDRESS", "to":"0x085fb4f24031eaedbc2b611aa528f22343eb52db", "gas": "0x30d40", "value": "0x0", "data": "0x4e71d92d"}], "id":1}'
The problem with this approach that it will cost you some gas to execute this transaction even if you’re a miner of the block. Another way is to patch Parity/Geth to include such transactions automatically, See Example
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