List of pools added to OP.

Yes, ASIC.

It's being solo mined right now.

I don't know what ViRobot is picking up.  Maybe "petrodollard.exe"?  The wallet was compiled on a clean build of Windows running in a VM running on Mac installed from a Microsoft ISO.  The installer was created on the same VM using Advanced Installer 10.9.1.

The source is there including complete step-by-step build instructions for Windows.

If there's a problem with the MSI I'll remove it, but I'll wait for a second opinion.

Launched.

Every single coin I release is zero premine, now and forever.

Original Launch Announcement: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/5509-pre-ann-the-petrodollar-p-big-oil-comes-to-crypto/



The PetroDollar (p$)

Big Oil Comes To Crypto

This coin has been designed to have a 1:10000 relationship to barrels of oil still existing in the ground.  

p$1 = 1,000 barrels

Oil consumption increases at an average rate of 1.429% per year for the last decade
http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx

1,221,074,628,164 barrels remaining
"World Proved Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas, Most Recent Estimates - Energy Information Administration (EIA) - Data from BP Statistical Review, Oil & Gas Journal, World Oil, BP Statistical Review, CEDIGAZ, and Oil & Gas Journal." http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=5&pid=57&aid=6

89,343,600 pumped per day in 2012
http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=5&pid=53&aid=1

Avg yearly rate of increase in output over past 4 years: 1.082%.

Average consumption/output disparity: 0.347%

Days until oil ends: 13667.17513245492682

Coin Maximum: p$122,107,462 (10,000 barrels per coin)
5 minute transaction time
288 blocks per day
120 blocks to mature
Blocks 105,120 per year
SHA-256D
Kimoto's Gravity Well

43200 blocks (150 days): 50% payout (p$61,037,314) or block reward of 1412.90078704

After block 43200:
Year 1-5 (blocks 43201-568800): 3170769.55844155 (30.16333293)
Year 5-10 (blocks 568801-1094400): 1585384.77922077 (15.08166646)
Year 10-15 (blocks 1094401-1620000): 792692.38961038 (7.54083323)
Year 15-20 (blocks 1620001-2145600): 396346.19480510 (3.77041661)
Year 25-30 (blocks 2145601-2671200): 198173.09740250 (1.88520830)
Year 35-   (blocks 2671201-       ): 99086.54870120 (0.94260415)

Until block 43200, fees are 1.429% of TX, destroyed
Year 1-5 (blocks 43201-568800): 1.429%
Year 5-10 (blocks 568801-1094400): 2.858%
Year 10-15 (blocks 1094401-1620000): 5.716%
Year 15-20 (blocks 1620001-2145600): 11.432%
Year 25-30 (blocks 2145601-2671200): 12.864%
Year 35-   (blocks 2671201-       ): 15.728%

All fees are destructive, forever.

ZERO PREMINE

Original Launch Announcement
https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/5509-ann-the-petrodollar-p-big-oil-comes-to-crypto/

ZERO PREMINE

petrodollar.conf
   server=1
   listen=1
   addnode=162.243.147.115
   rpcuser=petrodollarrpc
   rpcpassword=changeme
   rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
   rpcport=23931

Windows Qt Wallet
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Ui324JBcO1QXYyYnJ1NzVXS3M
https://www.virustotal.com/it/file/2cd60a9504feecf53499d011f4d4c73af40cc88bc2414b4f6f8e5554c667d94b/analysis/1392799397/

MacOS Qt Wallet
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Ui324JBcO1OTRTNkpTZDRVSTg

Linux Qt Wallet
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Ui324JBcO1LUZyTFVXOXQ2a3c

GitHub Repo
http://github.com/bryceweiner/petrodollar

Twitter
http://twitter.com/thepetrodollar

Website[/u]
http://petrodollar.org
http://thepetrodollar.org

Main Net
Port = 23932
RPC Port = 32923

Test Net
Port = 28072
RPC Port = 27082

POOLS
http://coinminer.net:20002/static/
petro.coinswim.com
petro.hashfast.de
http://petro.hasher.ca/  
https://kgw.deadly-silence.org/index.php?page=dashboard

EXCHANGE
https://allcrypt.com
https://coin-swap.net/market/PTR/
http://penny-alts.co.uk/

BLOCK EXPLORERS
http://petroinsight.buddylabsapps.com/
http://petroexplorer.org/chain/petrodollar


Peak oil projections via TheOilDrum.com


PetroDollar projections via @PennyAlts and @Bigdaddybtc


Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/thePetroDollar/

MacOS wallet added.

Precompiled Windows wallet now in OP.

MacOS compile instructions added to GitHub.

Precompiled MacOS wallet coming soon.

Yup

It also compiles fine under Ubuntu 13.10, 12.10, and 12.0.4.  That's a new one. Thanks!

I C&P'd that bit from the CCT thread.  I figured Linux people should be smart enough to compile their own clients in 2m or they should be running OSX.  

How's that?

Are we going to run out of electricity or is bitcoin going to disappear?

The only thing any coin forked from bitcoin can ever hope to be is another bitcoin.

That is, unless one of these would be geniuses would care to reinvent the entire blockchain/mining/transaction system.

Otherwise it's just a coin that eats more energy than SHA-256D and requires more physical resources (read: pollution and waste). 

That's just the numbers.  It's just math.

Grat's on making yet-another-environmentally destructive codebase in the name of "ASIC resistance".

How is something 'SHA-256 resistant', anyway?

Sometimes cutting and pasting is more clever than plowing into a brick wall.

Always a good time for trolls.

I have no idea why nobody hasn't done it before, so I did.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=464885.0

It's a dream come true for SHA-256D coins because you can design without care for difficulty retargets.  

SHA-256D ASICs are only getting more popular.  The coins they mine should be up to the latest in technology.

If you don't believe me, check the AmKoin block chain.  KGW lookbehind is set for 1 hour on a 7m block time.

Throw 10Th/s on the network and the coin will normalize in 120 minutes.   Yank it off and it will normalize again in another 120.  Over that time, still an average 7m block time.

For coins designed with shorter block times ... you get the picture.

Check out the GitHub codebase.  I included a few extra lines that look like sloppy coding, but will assist other SHA-256D developers to integrate KGW into their coins.

This coin is designed to benefit smaller pools due to the small block reward, high transaction fees, and long block times.  The more pools the merrier.

It is a long haul coin, designed to last.  Don't expect to hit a block all the time and don't expect it to hit an exchange any time soon.

It's designed to be a store of value, not something that you buy groceries with.

This coin was launched (and re-launched) on CPUs.  I included complete, step-by-step compiling instructions for Windows and Ubuntu (Mac is coming).  People compiled their own wallets who have never programmed before. People figured out how to solo mine who had never mined a coin before. 

I have the screenshots they sent me to celebrate.

In three years if those people keep those wallets safe they will have something they will treasure.

I have no idea what the value of this coin is.  I don't think anyone does.

Reserved.

ORIGINAL LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT FEB 8, 2014: https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/4678-ann-amkoin-amk/



AMKOIN (AmK)

This coin is in honor of the conspiracy theory website Amerikan Konspiracy (www.amkon.net) on its sixth consecutive year of operation.

This coin is intended to be EDUCATIONAL. I purposefully did not release a Windows installation set for the first week, forcing users to compile by hand. I specifically launched this coin on Twitter with COMPLETE build instructions for Windows to help people learn how to compile Windows Qt wallets. Nothing motivates people like a rare coin.

Website
http://www.amkon.net

Block Explorer / Crawler
http://amk.seedbank.io/BlockCrawler/block_crawler.php

SPECIFICATIONS

• UNO 0.9.0 Fork
• SHA-256 Algo
• Constant block reward: 0.000023
• Maximum coins: 23, ONE OF THE RAREST CRYPTOS OF ALL TIME
• 20 blocks to mature
• 6 transactions to confirm
• Minimum subsidy of 0.00000010 for all transactions
• Estimated PoW lifespan: 5 years
• ZERO PREMINE
• Kimoto Gravity Well: EventHorizonDeviation = 1 + (0.7084 * pow((double(PastBlocksMass)/double(28.2)), -1.228))
• KGW lookbehind: 1 hour
• Transaction time: 7 minutes

DOWNLOADS
Windows
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0Ui324JBcO1NDVmajlrQUlvN3c
STEP-BY-STEP Windows Compile Instructions!
https://github.com/bryceweiner/amkoin/blob/master/doc/build-msw.md
MacOS
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Ui324JBcO1bVRMNXBFLWdwSVE/edit?usp=sharing
Linux
None Available.
Ubuntu 13.10 Compile Instructions
https://github.com/bryceweiner/amkoin/blob/master/doc/build-unix.md
Source Code
http://github.com/bryceweiner/amkoin

Sample amkoin.conf
PORTS
RPC Port: 32023
RPC Testnet Port: 27982
P2P Port: 23032
P2P Testnet Port: 28972

POOLS
stratum+tcp://pool.broketech(DOT)tk:52323 -u <AMK Address> -p any  (recommend -s 1)
http://www.japool.com:52323/static/
http://coinminer.net:19988/

EXCHANGES
None Available.

SERVICES / OTHER
None Available.

We had one disaster already.  Something stupid on my part.  Everything is fixed now and it's all good.

This is the first SHA-256D crypto to implement Kimoto's Gravity Well successfully.  Designing SHA-256D coins around difficulty retargets is now a thing of the past.