[ANN] AsicCoin (ASC) | SHA256 - The coin for ASIC Mining!

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AsicCoin - ASC

A SHA-256 crypto-currency, is based on Bitcoin version 0.8, with super random blocks. It is a coin for ASICs!

The following specifications are implemented:

   - Each normal block has 1024 coins
   - 30 seconds block time
   - Difficulty retargets every 60 blocks (approximately 30 mins).
   - mining payout will be halved every 3 months (259,200 blocks)
   - Expected total mined coins will be 675,925,530 coins (not including 1 coin/block maintenance)
   - 4 confirmations for transaction (2 mins)
   - 70 confirmations for minted blocks
   - The minimum payout will be maintained at 1 coin/block.[/li][/list]


   Random bonus blocks are:
      - 1/10 chance (about every 5 mins) for one 2048-coin block (2^11 coins)
      - 1/100 chance (about every hour) for one 8096-coin block (2^13 coins)
      - 1/10000 chance (about every 3.5 days) for one 65536-coin block (2^16 coins)

Ports:
- Connection: 13434
- RPC: 13435

No Premine

ASICCoin info also added to CoinWarz, which provides many info such as current block, diff, price, total coins, etc, a great site:
http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/coins/asiccoin

Official Website

http://asiccoin.biz

Exchanges

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

Games
http://lotto.asic.co/
http://altcoingambling.com/16BitBet/ASC

Mining Pools

thcst8's p2pool:
http://www.japool.com:13433/static/
details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=292501.msg3132165#msg3132165

sonicrules1234's Stratum/Getwork pool:
http://asc.sonicrules.org
Host: asc.sonicrules.org
Stratum Port: 3335
Getwork Port: 9002
Reward System: PPLNS
Fee: 1.5%
More details at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=293132.0

CoinEx ASC Mining Pool:
https://coinex.pw/mining/pools/ASC

ialoarmstrong's Mining Pool:
http://mining.mike.kz

Feeleep's Stratum Mining Pool:
http://asc.coinmine.pl
Stratum Port: 6110

rav3n_pl p2pool:
http://rav3n.dtdns.net:9433

pawlak2 p2pool:
http://bit.usr.sh:9433

Network Hash Rate Graph

Total Network Speed Graph (thanks to powpow):
http://asc.block-chain.net/

Blockchain Explorer

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

Giveaway Thread

Thanks to hingolurallh
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=295477.0

Downloads

Windows Client Download:

http://asiccoin.biz/downloads.php

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

Configurations

Use the following addnodes for initially connecting to the network:
addnode=173.71.201.121
addnode=14.161.68.183
addnode=192.3.79.186
addnode=98.214.94.227

Sample config file:

listen=1
server=1
rpcuser=**Yourusername**
rpcpassword=**Yourpassword**
rpcport=13435
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
addnode=173.71.201.121
addnode=14.161.68.183
addnode=192.3.79.186
addnode=98.214.94.227

How to Mine

1. Start up asiccoin-qt, wait for it to load, then exit.
2. Put asiccoin.conf (see sample file above) in your c:/users/**yourcomputername**/AppData/Roaming/AsicCoin
3. restart asiccoin-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:13435 -u **yourusername** -p **password** (without **)

asiccoin=math.Object(
PARENT=networks.nets['asiccoin'],
SHARE_PERIOD=??, # seconds target spacing
NEW_SHARE_PERIOD=??, # seconds
CHAIN_LENGTH=?? # shares
REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH=?? # shares
TARGET_LOOKBEHIND=?? # shares coinbase maturity
SPREAD=?? # blocks
NEW_SPREAD=?? # blocks
IDENTIFIER=??,
PREFIX=??,
P2P_PORT=??,
MIN_TARGET=??,
MAX_TARGET=??,
PERSIST=??,
WORKER_PORT=??,
BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS=??,
ANNOUNCE_CHANNEL=??,
VERSION_CHECK=??,
),