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Title: How to distinguish the algorithm of coin from its sourse?
Post by: 360998186 on January 01, 2014, 12:09:40 PM
 :)Hi,I want to know which algorithm the coin is,such as scrypt,quark,scrypt-jane.

Would you help me?

find it from wallet cmd or sourse?


Title: Re: How to distinguish the algorithm of coin from its sourse?
Post by: Wave_of_Mutilation on January 01, 2014, 04:10:18 PM
Probably, the easiest first step in determination of algo will be main.h:

diff fastcoin/src/main.h quark/src/main.h

< #include "scrypt.h"
---
> #include "hashblock.h"

However, primecoin constructed somehow by another way.