@BN, please excuse my ignorance, but is the point of merged coins simply to make it advantageous for mining? If so, wouldn't you need an identical blockchain for it to work? (To put it another way, doesn't different blockchains mean different calculations are required?)
Love to understand more on this point though. Any and all explanations appreciated! Thanks
No merged HASH utilization but separate chains. The chains get co-mined. I'm no expert on the tech details. Now would be a great time for a lead dev to explain the finer points.
Yes makes it advantageous for mining. UNO is geared to have very low rewards. If we can also offer some side chains with high rewards then UNO has other attractive bonus points.
(Because we may be more profitable to mine than BTC but that will be countered quickly by miners switching in-then-out instantaneously ... and this price/hashrate/profitability DANCE repeats ... but could take days/weeks to oscillate up then down )
Having a good blend of merged coins smooths out the mining hash participation. Because as UNO profitability drops one of the sidechains maybe in the profitability range, so miners just decide to permanently go to the UNO pool.
Plus if we have something like a counterparty or mastercoin attached to the network, they can add their 'clutter' to one of the sidechains and not the UNO chain.
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Un needs an atomic number
if I recall chemistry class correctly the number under the big lettersI'm thinking kilograms produced per second or minute.