[Version 1.1 is released. Please upgrade.]

Version 1.1 is released. Please upgrade.

Tigercoin - TGC

TGC is a fork of Bitcoin version 0.8, with addition of super random blocks.

Proof of work with SHA256 is used as in Bitcoin. The following specifications are implemented:
   - Each normal block has 128 coins
   - 45 seconds block time
   - Difficulty retargets every 20 blocks (approximately 15 mins).
   - mining payout will be halved every 3 months (every 172800 blocks)
   - once the payout reaches 1 coin/block, it will stay there to sustain the mining
   - Expected total mined coins will be 47,011,968 coins (not counting the one coin per block inflationary sustaining blocks)
   - 4 confirmations for transaction
   - 50 confirmations for minted blocks
   
   - Random bonus blocks are (on average):
      - 1 superblock of 512 coins every hour (1/80 chance)
      - 1 superblock of 2048 coins every day (1/1920 chance)

   - The default ports are 15660(Connect) and 15661(RPC).

To support early adopters, in the first 3 days - 5760 blocks, all the payouts (including superblocks) will be doubled.

No Premine.

News and Announcements

- December 18, 2013: Tigercoin listed in Cryptsy: https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/130
- September 8, 2013: Switchover to V1.1 successful at block 4001.
- September 8, 2013: So far we have 3 mining pools running
- September 8, 2013: Tigercoin is listed in CoinEx: https://coinex.pw/trade/tgc_btc
- September 7, 2013: Version 1.1 released. This is a mandatory upgrade before block 4000
- September 6, 2013: Tigercoin - TGC launched

Mining Pools

thcst8's p2pool:
http://www.japool.com:15662/static/
see details at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289782.0

CoinEx Mining Pool:
https://coinex.pw/mining/pools/TGC
PPLNS with 5min window

iSpace Mining SHA256 Pool:
http://ispace.co.uk

Daygle's Mining Pool:
http://tgc.coinz.pw

ViMal's Mining Pool:
http://sha.mine-pool.net/tgc/
fee: 1%

amarian12's p2pool:
http://p2pool.e-pool.net:8938    
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://p2pool.e-pool.net:8938 -u YourWalletAddress -p password

Exchanges

Cryptsy:
https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/130

CoinEx:
https://coinex.pw/trade/tgc_btc

Faucet

http://tigerfaucet.freefromfiat.net

Blockchain Explorer

http://bit.usr.sh:2750/chain/Tigercoin

Downloads

Windows Client Downloads:

Mega.co.nz:
https://mega.co.nz/#!oh8VDYJZ!BoAJcQUZJ1Q75OEDlqZkID85kilcDYTYVOKtFpNpNFk



Source Code Download:
https://github.com/tigercoin/tigercoin

Website

http://tigercoin.wordpress.com

Config File

Use the following addnodes for initially connecting to the network:
addnode=192.241.136.114
addnode=84.118.159.44
addnode=193.84.22.110
addnode=86.199.244.81
addnode=94.236.129.227


Sample config file:

listen=1
server=1
rpcuser=**Yourusername**
rpcpassword=**Yourpassword**
rpcport=15661
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
addnode=192.241.136.114
addnode=84.118.159.44
addnode=193.84.22.110
addnode=86.199.244.81
addnode=94.236.129.227

How to Solo Mine

1. Start up tigercoin-qt, wait for it to load, then exit.
2. Put tigercoin.conf (see sample file above) in your c:/users/**yourcomputername**/AppData/Roaming/Tigercoin
3. restart tigercoin-qt, and you should connect and sync.
4. For solo mining, launch cgminer or the mining program you use and begin mining.
      cgminer ex: cgminer.exe -o localhost:15661 -u **yourusername** -p **password** (without **)

The price of USB Erupter going down very quickly, and yet at 0.3-0.4 BTC each, shall we ever get the investment back? At the current diff, each USB Erupter can mine about 2.5X10^-4 BTC per day, which means it can get 0.4 BTC in 160 days (or 5+ months). But with BTC diff rapidly going up, I suspect that the investment can never be recovered. Is my computation correct?