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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Who still remembers Decred? on: June 17, 2025, 05:34:15 AM
new project coming soon forked from decred  Grin
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Anyone Interested:PoW/Hybrid PoS Decered with Kawpow and possibly Masternodes on: June 15, 2025, 12:24:34 AM
Thought Experiment: A Fair-Launch PoW Coin with Hybrid PoS Security



Hello everyone,

I've been thinking a lot about the state of new cryptocurrency launches in 2025 and wanted to float a hypothetical project idea to get some feedback from this community.

It seems like we're always forced to choose between two imperfect models:
1.  Pure PoW Coins: These offer a fair, decentralized launch, but are incredibly vulnerable to 51% attacks, especially in their early days.
2.  Pure PoS Coins: These can be more secure, but often suffer from centralized initial distribution through ICOs or pre-sales.

So, here's the thought experiment: What if a new project was created to specifically combine the best of both worlds?

The Hypothetical Coin's Architecture:
  • Base: A direct fork of Decred's codebase to inherit its battle-tested hybrid consensus engine and on-chain governance (Politeia).
  • PoW Algorithm: KawPoW, to make it ASIC-resistant and ensure a fair launch for GPU miners worldwide.
  • Consensus: A true hybrid. Every block found by a KawPoW miner would need to be validated and approved by PoS ticket holders to be added to the chain.
  • Tokenomics: A block reward split designed for sustainability, something like:
    • 50% to PoW Miners
    • 40% to PoS Stakers
    • 10% to a community-governed Treasury
The core idea is that the PoS layer acts as an "immune system," making 51% attacks nearly impossible from day one, while the KawPoW layer ensures fair, widespread distribution without a pre-mine or ICO. The treasury ensures the project can fund its own development forever.

I'm genuinely curious what this community thinks.

  • What are the potential flaws in this model?
  • Would the economics of the 50/40/10 split be compelling enough for both miners and stakers?
  • Is this a project you would find interesting enough to participate in (either mining or staking)?

Looking forward to the discussion. Also for any feature requests

3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: SilentNotary The 1st Blockchain Notary Company in the world! on: August 06, 2020, 03:50:45 PM
with all the development you guys have gong into your ecosystem this year i dont understand why this coin is so cheap on kucoin? it has use and definitely unique. Oh well with the crypto boom coming back and more adoption it will start moving along better we can only hope anyways.
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: TurtleGold on: August 29, 2019, 11:54:16 AM
I noticed some activity on GitHub a few days ago I think these guys are really busy but they have plans for the coin just slow as Christmas I also noticed cryptonote.club pool has not been paying miners  since 16 the possibly alt fork or they didn't do the mandatory wallet upgrade who knows I would stay on miningpool.fun since they added that pool as a seednode 
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: TurtleGold on: August 21, 2019, 12:33:47 PM
Gabberpool.xyz has most of the hash roughly 75% and money supply is at 4 trillion already hope they have plans for this coin after it caps because the network won't move if there are no rewards for miners
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: TurtleGold on: August 21, 2019, 01:50:43 AM
Well I see alot of these new cryptonight coins are being merge mined so maybe there is hope yet. I know it caps I think I have a little over a billion trtg fingers crossed but it reminds me of the old karma coin
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: TurtleGold on: August 20, 2019, 09:03:02 PM
The block rewards are so high 517000 with no halving it makes the coin worthless these guys have a lot of coins out right now I think they are focusing on bitoro/xtor
8  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: TurtleGold on: August 20, 2019, 05:23:37 PM
Use the one on cryptonote.club pool above if anyone needs wallets or anything let me know I'll compile them
9  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] ZERO - fork of Zcash with harder mining params on: February 21, 2017, 03:22:25 AM
I created a user for zero. I deleted everything and started over and still get the same error.

is the user in the sudoers group?
10  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] ZERO - fork of Zcash with harder mining params on: February 19, 2017, 10:53:03 PM
this is basic linux stuff lol. its all working fine as i have it compiled and running. i ran into no issues.
11  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] ZERO - fork of Zcash with harder mining params on: February 19, 2017, 10:36:21 PM
did you cd to the src directory before running the command

Code:
cd ~/zero/src

then run

Code:
./zcashd -listen=0


then

Code:
./zcash-cli getinfo
12  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] bitGrow - POW/POS Hybrid on: February 19, 2017, 10:28:57 PM
time for a better pool ? ... this pool reject rate is so high

could be your miner? i have had no issues with rejection rate
13  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] ZERO - fork of Zcash with harder mining params on: February 19, 2017, 10:14:28 PM
i followed the guide on the ZERO repo

Code:
git clone https://github.com/zerocurrency/zero.git

cd zero

git checkout master

./zcutil/fetch-params.sh

./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)

mkdir -p ~/.zero

echo "rpcuser=username" > ~/.zero/zero.conf

echo "rpcpassword=head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf

echo "addnode=35.164.216.74" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf

echo "addnode=35.165.120.254" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf

echo "rpcport=23800" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf

echo 'gen=1' >> ~/.zero/zero.conf

echo "genproclimit=$(nproc)" >> ~/.zero/zero.conf

echo 'equihashsolver=tromp' >> ~/.zero/zero.conf

then did ./zcashd -listen=0

was smooth as butter
14  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] ZERO - fork of Zcash with harder mining params on: February 19, 2017, 10:02:30 PM
Code:
./zcashd -listen=0
15  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] ZERO - fork of Zcash with harder mining params on: February 19, 2017, 09:50:11 PM
https://github.com/zcash/zcash/wiki/1.0-User-Guide#running-zcash
16  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] ZERO - fork of Zcash with harder mining params on: February 19, 2017, 05:30:18 PM
Code:
{
  "version": 1000650,
  "protocolversion": 170002,
  "walletversion": 60000,
  "balance": 0.00000000,
  "blocks": 157,
  "timeoffset": 0,
  "connections": 2,
  "proxy": "",
  "difficulty": 1.104330755184002,
  "testnet": false,
  "keypoololdest": 1487525107,
  "keypoolsize": 10001,
  "paytxfee": 0.00000000,
  "relayfee": 0.00001000,
  "errors": ""
}
17  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: CryptoZ on: February 18, 2017, 12:25:14 AM
no remember cryptonote coins use a 8 or 12 decimal floating point system so that would be 34.5
18  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] bitGrow - POW/POS Hybrid on: February 17, 2017, 05:53:43 PM
"version" : "v0.1.1.3-candy-beta",
    "protocolversion" : 60007,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 31.74531800,
    "newmint" : 0.00000000,
    "stake" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 57000,
    "moneysupply" : 504028.21000000,
    "connections" : 2,
    "proxy" : "",
    "ip" : "172.106.75.17",
    "difficulty" : 763115.19766130,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1486944623,
    "keypoolsize" : 104,
    "paytxfee" : 0.01000000,
    "errors" : ""

I have been stuck at block 57000 since yesterday? Any Ideas? Thank You

you need to recompile the source, or wait for the next one that should come today.
We waiting on staking fix.

also 1.1.4 is the newest wallet version
19  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] bitGrow - POW/POS Hybrid on: February 15, 2017, 10:17:31 PM
i compiled the wallet for windows but i need to debug it as it crashes as soon as it opens
20  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] bitGrow - POW/POS Hybrid on: February 15, 2017, 08:43:01 PM
updated pool

awesome, can you also increase the difficulty?

stratum updated
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