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Title: Alternative cryptocurrencies and proof-of-stake
Post by: searcy on August 20, 2012, 05:18:56 PM

So PPCoin was launched last night.

From what I can tell, it looks to be the first alt-coin implementation that has proof-of-stake.  Am I correct in that?





Title: Re: Alternative cryptocurrencies and proof-of-stake
Post by: Stephen Gornick on August 20, 2012, 07:37:52 PM

So PPCoin was launched last night.

From what I can tell, it looks to be the first alt-coin implementation that has proof-of-stake.  Am I correct in that?

Not in its current form, apparently:

 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101954.0