Emercoin

Emercoin (EMC)
Cryptocurrency and blockchain service platform
with Proof-of-Stake + Proof-of-Work mining + Name Value Storage

Description
Emercoin began as a hybrid of NameCoin and PPCoin. The software was released on December 11, 2013 without any premine.
Emercoin is more focused on the production of coins by PoS than PoW. The mining has a bonus on the interval 1-512 difficulty for high initial issue of coins.
Further difficulty will gradually increase, making PoS mining more promising.The Emercoin Name-Value Storage (NVS) feature for storing name->value pairs in the blockchain, is a key component in many of the Emercoin services.
Quick Facts
PoW Algorithm: SHA-256.
PoS reward: approx. 6% pa
PoS coin maturity: 30 days
PoS max stake-weight: 90 days.
Total Supply: Algorithmically increasing at approx. 6% per year.
Block speed: 10 minute average.
Initial PoW block reward: 5020 EMC, decreasing depending on difficulty.
PoW difficulty is recalculated each block.
Confirmations for new block: 32
Website and News
Official Emercoin Website | Official Emercoin Wiki | Emercoin News | Emercoin Blockchain Engine News

Introduction to Emercoin

Blockchain Engine and Services
Emercoin offers a wide range of distributed blockchain services for business and personal use.

Technology Tree and Real World Use Cases

Wallets and Sources

Latest release V0.6.2

Emercoin Blockchain Engine on the Microsoft Azure Platform
Emercoin’s Blockchain Engine is offered within the Microsoft Azure platform where it can be deployed using CentOS or Ubuntu in the cloud.
It can be managed with the easy to use JSON-RPC as well as a web interface.
Blockchain Engine is a functional and robust, yet simple to use system for designing applications and services based around the Emercoin blockchain.
It contains an expansive suite of tools that can be used to create an entirely new project, or to improve upon an existing application already in operation.
More Information on Microsoft Azure Website

Exchanges
Bittrex.com | Livecoin.net | Cryptopia.co.nz | Openledger.info | BTC38.com | CoinReform.com

Pools
Mergemining | F2Pool | P2Pool

Blockchain Explorer
emcblock.info

Our Forum Signatures

Feel free to support Emercoin by wearing our signatures.

Release History

v 0.6.2
1) Added GUI for exchanges.
2) Added -alertpubkey and -checkpointpubkey config options.
3) Switched to QT 5.5.0.
4) Fixed 2 bugs when disconnecting blocks.

v 0.5.2
1) Merged with bitcoin 0.10.4. This allows to create transactions that cannot be spent until certain time/height.
2) QT and CLI now has unicode support by default (Univalue lib). This will display Unicode symbols in name value, but please note: do not use it for binary data.
3) RPC can also enable unicode, but you need to specify “-legacyrpc=0” in your emercoin.conf.
4) Name commands now have parameter for binary input/output as a hex or base64 encoded strings.
5) Some minor bugfixes (emercoin-cli could crash client during client startup).
6) More info about wallet lock state in getinfo (“encrypted”: true, “mintonly”: true)
7) Added ENUM support.

v 0.5.1
A new bitcoin 10.2 core

v 0.3.4
Added alternative seed search mechanism, based on emcDNS system. Improved PoS minting. Added and activated config option –walletnotify

v 0.3.3
Added improvements PoS – reduced load on the CPU

v 0.3.2
Added DNS NVS Subdomain control system, add new domain zones – * .lib, * .bazar

v 0.3.0
Lot of changes, read about – DO NOT POST SESC LINKS

v 0.2.4
add comand:
deletetransaction <Tx ID>
gettxlistfor <from block> <to block> <address> [type=0] [verbose=0]

v 0.2.3
Fixed a bug (stop downloading the chain) in a 32-bit version of Linux

v 0.2.2
Advanced dynamic IP protocol STUN added

v 0.2.1
Fixed SSL vulnerability (Heartbleed)

v 0.2.0
If you have any problems with synchronization on 19080 block – download and install version 0.2.0 – http://emercoin.com/downloads/
All data will be saved, none of the coins will not be a loss.

v 0.1.5
Add QT Debug window

v 0.1.2-0.1.4
Now payment links open correctly as in qt-Bitcoin client.
You can integrate EMC reception on their sites using the links format emercoin:EMCAdress?Amount=x (where x – number of coins).
Also available in the source code of the payment gateway – https://github.com/A…mercoin_payment
Test Gateway – http://192.241.241.153/emercoin

v 0.1.1
add comand:
+ { “getrawtransaction”, &getrawtransaction, false},
+ { “listunspent”, &listunspent, false},
+ { “createrawtransaction”, &createrawtransaction, false},
+ { “signrawtransaction”, &signrawtransaction, false},
+ { “sendrawtransaction”, &sendrawtransaction, false},
+ { “decoderawtransaction”, &decoderawtransaction, false},