[ANN][MIN] Minerals - POS | Developing own anon solution |

[Minerals]

[MIN] MINERALS









Minerals Dev team is now oficially focusing on developement of anonymity features. So far we can not offer any additional information or eta, except first sketch of the idea.





Do you need some free Minerals to test your brand new wallet? Check out the Faucet!

MINERALS PRODUCT ROADMAP

News

Immortals & Minerals Tournament - ENDED

New Twitter Tip-Bot is up and running. Simply add hashtag #MIN and your wallet address to your tweet. In 10 minutes you will receive some minerals. The more followers you have - the more minerals you will receive! You can repeat every 3 hours!


MineralsPR is our official PR representative. You may ask him any questions regarding the project development, future plans, etc.

Quick update on what is happening and what will happen with Minerals and its betting services. Development roadmap

Stream betting is up and running at http://bet.minerals.pro/
Please report all bugs that you find to dev@minerals.pro
Thank you for supporting Minerals!
Stream Betting Tutorial

Minerals IRC Channel: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##minerals
You are always welcome!  

If you are new to Starcraft II Get your Starcraft Starter Edition for FREE! http://www.starcraft.com

liuhozhou was nice to set up Minerals QQ Group: 184828268
Please check it out!


Community demands anonymity and we hear it. We are going to implement anonymity feature soon after e-sports betting is up and running. Its on Minerals roadmap and we are not going to rest until anonymity is in place.

You can still mine Minerals even though POW stage is over, by mining at CoinKing.io! Please see this detailed guide how to set up your mining at CoinKing

Check out this awesome Minerals News Website http://www.morningminerals.com/ by Hoshimaru
All the latest news there!

Currently working on a E-Sports betting service that should look like this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=641057.msg7440224#msg7440224
First working prototype will be ready in a couple of days!
We would love to know what do you think of it!

Windows Wallet: https://mega.co.nz/#!8wNXFK5a!PR3i8LOE1LRpRmbklIubv8s27lt12_JuEmiT2BaJ7ME
Mac Wallet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/27yifyorvnyyi8h/Minerals-Qt-MacOSX-v1.0.zip
Linux Wallet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ylcyyi00zu2b8yl/minerals_1.0.4-0_amd64.deb
GitHub: https://github.com/Minerals-dev/Minerals

Windows Wallet (with graphics): https://www.dropbox.com/s/lbx9issth3xf1du/Minerals.msi
Mac Wallet (with graphics): https://www.dropbox.com/s/yt1fd5pgtxogz2f/Minerals-Qt-MacOSX-v1.0-RC2.zip

Nodes are hardcoded, there is no need to have config file.

Minerals has entered pure POS stage. This means you can no longer mine Minerals directly. You may use http://multipool.minerals.pro to mine Minerals using our multipool.

Please, read this post regarding affiliation

Pool mining - you can have only 1 worker per account and this 1 worker has a limit of 50 MH/s hashrate. Any other workers that you've created were deleted.
PS: if you have several small mining rigs you may use 1 worker for all of them, all valid shares that they produce will be accepted just as well as if you were using multiple workers for each rig

Multipool is ready. It is turned off at the moment until the end of POW stage. At the moment it supports X11 algo only. There is no mining fee, only trading and transaction fees.

Why Minerals?
Inspired by StarCraft, Minerals is a POW/POS cryptocurrency designed to be as evenly distributed as possible across vast group of miners, investors and other communities. Because of its even distribution of coins, Minerals is intended to be appealing to non-crypto community as well.

Premine, IPO, instamine?
There is no premine, no IPO, no instamine.

• Instamine is avoided by rewarding first 100 blocks with 1 MIN.
• There is no IPO.
• There is no premine.

Dev’s interest?
The dev team will have the interest in the coin, in its further development and marketing by cutting out the middlemen – pools. There is no reason for miners to pay fees to pool owners, who don't contribute to coin development and are only interested in instantaneous profit from the coin and easily move on to another coin. Moreover, pools often wage wars and DDoS each other which only creates anxiety and instability in the network and is detrimental for the coin. Therefore, there will be no third-party pools, all pools will be operated by us. There will be a total of six pools (scv, mule, probe, drone, refinary, exctractor), each with 1% fee. This pool fee will be used for further coin development and to keep our interests aligned. Fees collected from the pools will be stored in a designated public address and each coin movement will be publicly disclosed.

Multipools problem?
There will be no multipools as all pools are operated by us - no dumping of coins and no messing up with the network difficulty.

Solo mining?
In order to avoid potential ASICs and big farms from dominating the coin network there will be no solo mining.

Big farms/ASICs?
Hashing power of each worker and/or IP will be limited to not more than 50 MH/s (see the poll) by limiting the number of shares that a worker can send to the pool per unit of time.

How do you achieve all of this?
The only way to avoid Multipools, ASICs, big farms and third-party pools is by not providing the wallet and the source code until after the POW stage ends. The source code will be provided to exchanges which will be operational from the start. Moreover, to remove any doubt about the validity of the coin and it's source code third-party experts will be given the sorce code for validation and checks. The wallets might be provided before the end of the POW stage.

How to receive mined coins?
You can use the exchange or keep your coins in our pools until the wallets are provided.

Block explorer?
Available at launch.

Specs

Name: Minerals [MIN]
Algo: X11
Block time: 30sec
Block reward:
Blocks 1-100:   1 MIN
Blocks 101-20090: 1500 MIN
Last POW block 20090.  (7 days of mining)
Total POW coins: 30,000,000
Block retarget: every block
POS interest: 5% per year
Coins stake after 10 hours
Confirmations per transaction 4
Coins mature after 50 blocks
Premine: 0 (0%)

BLOCK EXPLORER


Wallets

Windows Wallet: https://mega.co.nz/#!8wNXFK5a!PR3i8LOE1LRpRmbklIubv8s27lt12_JuEmiT2BaJ7ME
Mac Wallet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/27yifyorvnyyi8h/Minerals-Qt-MacOSX-v1.0.zip
Linux Wallet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ylcyyi00zu2b8yl/minerals_1.0.4-0_amd64.deb
GitHub: https://github.com/Minerals-dev/Minerals

Need some free Minerals to test your brand new wallet? Check out the Faucet!

Faucet donations made out of Minerals Development Fund:
1a6d80734218d9682b521580e146c96ad2b34c01e4d10be8bbdee7ab5e179721-000

Paper wallet (Please, make sure that you do understand what paper wallet is and how it works before you use it) (bounty of 2000 MIN sent to virtualdn 844efa20bfacf1b5b013dd8f06433adb048c0b9b846d4d945a3ba20c5e0ddb0c-000)

Pools

You may mine Minerals even tho POW stage is over!

Detailed guide on how to set up your mining at CoinKing and receive Minerals as a reward!


Outdated info, POW stage is over:

These are the only legit pools that you can mine Minerals at:

SCV (1% fee) US East (N. Virginia)
DRONE (1% fee) EU (Ireland)
PROBE (1% fee) US West (N. California)
MULE (1% fee) US West (Oregon)
REFINERY (1% fee) Asia Pacific (Singapore)
EXCTRACTOR (1% fee) South America (São Paulo)

Please register at several pools and use some pools as a failover.

NB You can have only 1 worker per account and this 1 worker has a limit of 50 MH/s hashrate. Any other workers that you've created were deleted.
PS: if you have several small mining rigs you may use 1 worker for all of them, all valid shares that they produce will be accepted just as well as if you were using multiple workers for each rig

Exchanges

https://www.mintpal.com/market/MIN/BTC
https://poloniex.com/exchange/btc_min
https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-MIN
https://c-cex.com/?p=min-btc
https://www.kingcoiny.com/index.php?page=trade&market=26
https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/MIN_BTC/
https://bleutrade.com/exchange/MIN/BTC
https://cryptoine.com/trade/min_btc
https://rockytrade.net/index.php?page=trade&market=132
https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/258

Minerals on CryptoCoinRank
Minerals on Cryptonator

Bounties
Video 1 = 2,000 MIN (sent to Wolf Rainer 840bd7a922828eb5bb1fa4a586faa9d52a3b7c80ace830b7fb0400b2acb8ec0d-000)
Video 2 = 2,000 MIN (sent to AhmedAshraf 3553ef761ad476c91eeb7e21cb3c4f86212ab15af7b6b1ad42783e55dc86ccc6-000)
Video 3 = 2,000 MIN (sent to AhmedAshraf 56db6f6cc7b21a35f2db9c6151080c6276437452b98082f37504fbfe7a056d68-000)
Mac Wallet New Design = 1000 MIN (sent to instacash f2bc9d1fa66f578e8b848d6a71dd04f2c3ae64b886f8c7c061616ba96263138c-000)
Games 1 = 1,000 MIN (reserved by virtualdn)
Games 2 = 1,000 MIN (sent to animalroam 3291cd83c57b452a726a0cb959f60cb855bcba8ce932101d273509c60fe52c43-000)
Games 3 = 1,000 MIN (sent to ethought 8b1bc8741747de1488db3475ca5ea10ccfc82320e821cf4664eb4e3f5593d793-000)
Faucet = 1,000 MIN (sent to animalroam 81312a2e472eff2b73158a160d8052eb86fd03c056834a65d161a9db56308aa0-000)
Blog Posts & Articles = 200 MIN Each
Translations = 200 MIN Each
Chinese (sent to zxm7001 ddcdd34395a792107ce828feb871ae21b0c7964f14782f1497335ce106369638-000)
Russian (completed by wanvo)
Polish (bounty sent to szwagiercz 589b2187ee25298066ffb4b4f30c283ce3814273aa0ac16fce0e66bff05048e7-000)
Spanish (reserved by Wolf Rainer)
German (bounty sent to Reese212 9871c15d66a7762abcab29c407df45f12cb72b17a5432b64c3e4f0e5ae220fac-000)
Greek (reserved by bspus)
Italian (bad translation (google translate?) by splawik21)
Dutch (reserved by Bfljosh)
French (completed by followtheboss. Bounty of 200 MIN will be payed out after launch)
Korean (bounty claimed by WhatDisk)
Other Things Please Contact Us

Tournaments
We plan to sponsor Starcraft II Heart of the Swarm tournament!
Think you have what it takes to participate in the tournament and win Minerals? Sign up today by sending your info to our email: dev@minerals.pro

Other

Donation or Betting call

Minerals Development Fund
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If anybody wishes to receive MIN donations please use this image if you like

Logo contest winner: helloweiwei (will receive 1000 MIN bounty)


Games!
Minerals Scratch Off Game!
Rock Paper Scissors Game!

Articles about Minerals
MINERALS : X11 POW/POS WITH NO WALLET DOWNLOAD BEFORE END OF POW article by jdebunt

Fan art

By helloweiwei - also the creator of Minerals logo!

Video by Wolf Rainer
Video 1 by AhmedAshraf
Video 2 by AhmedAshraf

[Shadow_Runner]

No premine is very good.

[kopam]

Hmmm, well this sounds interesting, i will for sure keep an eye on it.
Especially as a former pro-gamer there is no way for me not to like this coin, really hope it turns out  to be a good coin and not just a scam.

[Minerals]

Hmmm, well this sounds interesting, i will for sure keep an eye on it.
Especially as a former pro-gamer there is no way for me not to like this coin, really hope it turns out  to be a good coin and not just a scam.

The way the coins will be distributed should provide comfort that this is not a scam coin. Hopefully fellow gamers will join our community.

[Thunderson]

en taro tassadar

hahaha.bro this is a funny coin.ill mine it as a sc fan.

[degel_x]

I was waiting for something like this for months, are we gonna have a bad time with blizzard?

[szwagiercz]

Polish translation is ready  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=641396.0

[Amph]

korean will apprecciate it

i love SC BW(not sc2), i will mine this for sure

[Minerals]

I was waiting for something like this for months, are we gonna have a bad time with blizzard?

The coin name is a generic word, I don't see how would it be a problem.

[Wolf Rainer]

Can i reserve the spanish translation?

[Minerals]

Can i reserve the spanish translation?

Reserved.

[n3rfherder]

this looks awesome if done well.

[BigWait]

300MH is too big..
250MH is the top think is good..
I  just a  Terran miner not Protoss miner .

[Minerals]

300MH is too big..
250MH is the top think is good..
I  just a  Terran miner not Protoss miner .

Based on what do you think that 250MH should be the cap?

[platorin]

Great memories from StarCraft. Basen on those I might consider mining this Good luck with the coin!

[shivamchawla]

So if no pools, multipools and solo mining is there, then the net hashrate should be equal to the sum of hashrate of each official pool?

[Minerals]

So if no pools, multipools and solo mining is there, then the net hashrate should be equal to the sum of hashrate of each official pool?

Exactly. Everybody can see where the hashrate is coming from. I think this is becoming a serious issue for new coins (even for some older ones) as it is not clear from where the hashrate is coming .

[shivamchawla]

Great. The coin looks awesome and i will surely mine some during launch. Can you provide some info about the team which is working with you?

[kopam]

btw are there any plans for anything else except the fresh idea for mining ?
I mean yeah, organizing a few tournaments will get the attention eventually, well it will get the attention if the prices are big enough and you can get some top Koreans in the tournaments.
But other than that do you have any other plans ? Like anon function or well anything else that might be considered as "new" ( not that anon is new but it seems to be the "cool kid" right now. )

[djm34]

"Solo mining?
In order to avoid potential ASICs and big farms from dominating the coin network there will be no solo mining."

and you don't like pools either  

well, so fuck you  
We need to stop freaking morons who are afraid of 20mh/s (at most) machines  
(big farms don't solomine, actually... in most of the case it is rented rig on pool)