I think this fascinating project deserves some attention. It is a significant innovation in the crypto-world. Huntercoin allows people without mining hardware to mine with their time/effort in the game.
Website: http://www.huntercoin.org
BitcoinTalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=435170.0
Specifications from the Huntercoin website:
- Human Mining – Control Hunters to harvest coins in another dimension using strategy, time & teamwork.
- Dual Algorithm –SHA256 + Scrypt. Each algo has separate difficulty, both targeting 2 minute blocks. Both are Merge Mineable.. See http://wiki.chronokings.com/index.php?title=Mining
- Total 10 coins Per Block – 1 to the miner, 8.75 onto the Map.
- Crown of Fortune – 1 Unique Item on the map which will generate 0.25 HUCs per block
- When a Hunter harvests coins and brings them back to a spawn area, the coins will materialize in their wallet, Miners will receive 10% of these ‘banked’ coins (TAX)
- When a Hunter is killed, 4% of the coins they held will be taken by miners. The rest will be dropped to the ground.
- Hardware Miners should receive in total (over time) ~20% of the Block Reward (2 Coins) + Player Death Taxes.
- 42 Million Total Coins
- Retarget Every block based on last 2016 Blocks (for each algo separately) – PPC Style
- Can be considered a basic decentralized P2P Massively Multiplayer Online Crypto Currency and Game, which takes place within the block chain.
- Includes all relevant features of other crypto currencies.
- Integrated Client Chat – Player can chat per block.
- Serverless
- Starting cost per Player is 1 HUC
- View the in game World Live (currently showing closed beta world and oldish client) http://192.81.209.210:3000/
This is the first cryptocurrency besides Protoshares/Angleshares I have felt compelled to invest in since Bitcoin.