[ANN][MARS] Marscoin - PoW / DGW - Bitcoin on Mars - Colonizing Mars!

[novalis788]

MARS - Marscoin

The Bitcoin for Mars

"...Marscoin proposes a public funding model for space colonization based on a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency network, built on the Bitcoin code. It tackles the largely unsolved funding hurdles for mankind's space exploration efforts by establishing a global, supra-national, voluntary currency that attempts to bootstrap future Mars colonies, incentivizing adoption of the digital currency as a stake in the colonies' future economy. Individuals that invest into this "joint-stock" colony funding model elevate the exchange rate of the currency, in effect providing the early stakeholders with the funding necessary for the construction of the future base.

A copy of Marscoin, which is in essence a cryptographically secured public ledger, can then be transferred to the new colony, where it becomes the backbone of the future settlement's financial system. This proposed physical transfer of all the investments made by the early adopters of Marscoin thus not only funds the new colony ahead of time, but becomes the bedrock of the planet's growing economy. By virtue of its intrinsic algorithmic scarcity and immunity to inflation, any economic growth in the future colony will be reflected in the rising value of the currency on the new planet. As mission milestones are met, adoption rates are expected to accelerate and therefore increase the value of Marscoin. The net effect of this increasing value allows mission funding to become increasingly effective as the launch date nears.

This model creates a financial incentive for the early stakeholders to achieve progress quickly and efficiently, and for an engaged and directly involved public. Marscoin is a proof-of-concept exploring financially viable private methods in dramatically lowering the threshold for funding colonies beyond planet Earth. It directly involves the general public in space exploration as it offers tangible ownership of the project with possible future financial benefits..." (Quote from the whitepaper "Marscoin - A cryptocurrency exploring private funding to bootstrap space colonization", abstract accepted by the Mars Society for the 17th annual international Mars convention)

Learn More: http://www.marscoin.org

Marscoin's future development is backed
by the non for profit
"Marscoin Foundation, Inc"
Learn more at http://www.marscoinfoundation.org/

Specifications:

✔ scrypt Litecoin-based cryptocurrency
✔ DarkGravityWave network protection (retarget every block)
✔ confirmation block every 2 Mars minutes (123 seconds)
✔ subsidy halves every Mars year (668 sols)
✔ 721 blocks per sol
✔ 50 coins per block
✔ 48 million total coins by 2024
✔ 500k donation for non-profit MarsOne
✔ 500k donation for The Mars Society
✔ Current 6.2 Mio MARS - fair release to 1000s of miners & mintpal, bittrex exchanges
✔ Symbol: MARS | MRS
✔ developed and supported by The Marscoin Foundation, Inc.

NO premine. Voluntary community donations by individual miners to Mars One and The Mars Society.


Milestones


✔ Genesis block 01/01/2014
✔ Live presentation: 1st CryptoCurrencyConvention - in NYC
   see video here
   view slides here
✔ Continuous updates on wallet software and network algorithm
✔ Online wallet beta release
✔ Live presentation: 17th Annual International Mars Society Convention
✔ International developer team

Download a wallet

Windows: https://mega.co.nz/#!vZRxRACI!0R58LpIs4Ap4wlVgPDH6fZpIbS5IlfJ9L3fhqdcI2Q8   
Mac: https://mega.co.nz/#!W05XiKqT!B3sjfsyjfd8cr-aFlK-n5n6AgNkN0G0-kZOCsRVop28
Linux: https://mega.co.nz/#!r0ohnR5Z!dEk9WaZHaQ5Ws-kFpeSq2eKekd5zxfUiDgLJOKJwFzM
Android: http://marscoin.org/downloads/wallet-1.2.apk
Source: http://github.com/marscoin/marscoin


Join our community


http://reddit.com/r/marscoin/
https://twitter.com/marscoinorg
IRC @freenode #Marscoin http://marscoin.org/chat2.html
https://www.facebook.com/marscoin
https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/3763-marscoin-mrs-information/
http://www.aspiringmartians.com/forums/
http://mars-project.org



Official Marscoin blog

http://marscoin.tumblr.com


Block explorers

http://explore.marscoin.org/


Mine

North America: http://pool.marscoin.org
Europe: http://mars.pooler.cc
North America: http://pool.coinshovel.com/


Buy and Sell

https://www.coins-e.com
https://c-cex.com
https://poloniex.com/

Vote for MARS on cryptsy
Vote for MARS on bittrex
Vote for MARS on Swisscex


Main Donation Addresses

MarsOne Donation Address
The official Marscoin community donation for MarsOne
The official Mars Society community donation for The Mars Society


Free Marscoin Give-away
http://faucet.marscoin.org


Paper wallets
http://marsaddress.org/


Price Charts

http://crypto-prices.com/MRS
http://sancrypto.info/index/show/MRS/


Tip bots

Send/Receive Marscoin tips on Reddit
http://www.reddit.com/user/marscointipbot


Logos & Banners
http://marscoin.org/logos.html

Embeddable widgets
http://widget.marscoin.org/

[novalis788]

the old link on bitcointalk was a guest thread - this official one will allow us to communicate updates more clearly on Bitcointalk - some users on the old thread did not find our updates because of that.

[novalis788]

thx!

[zxbball]

Coming back to life？？？？？？？？？？？

[l3n1nN]

Being a Martian at heart I'm so buying into this.

[novalis788]

Being a Martian at heart I'm so buying into this.

I know exactly how you feel :-) Who stole our childhood dreams? 1870-1970: from horse buggy to landing on the moon ... 1970-2010 space exploration is dead in the water, FED and inflation are growing, capital misallocated :-)

But now we got spacex, MarsOne, Bitcoin ... and Marscoin - things are looking up 

[novalis788]

Hey we are missing you on AltCoinCalendar!

PS: Add your coin even if it was already released. Only coins that will be on site will profit from new functionality we are working on.

thanks. just submitted MARS on AltCoinCalendar.

[tylerderden]

great to see a good straight forward coin without promises that the dev never intends to deliver, in short, nice non-pump and dump.

[robinf]

Again and again...

[tylerderden]

legit coin people bitch, scamcoin people bitch.

[pratsop]

new thread? good idea
wallet (windows version) works as intended

now name.
when we started (january) marscoin was 'mrs'.
now wallet and exchange (one so far, with very bad terms) using 'mars' but pools still using 'mrs'.
this could be little confusing I think.

[novalis788]

new thread? good idea
wallet (windows version) works as intended

now name.
when we started (january) marscoin was 'mrs'.
now wallet and exchange (one so far, with very bad terms) using 'mars' but pools still using 'mrs'.
this could be little confusing I think.

Thanks for pointing that out - we'll update all links/resources over time but haven't completed that yet. In general the community preferred "MARS" over "MRS" and as three letter abbreviations are not a must anymore MARS with its four characters makes it easier to find. Eventually on Mars, in 2025, it will simply be known as the crypto of Mars  . Smaller units might get great names like "1 zubrin" or "10 bas" :-)

[commandrix]

This is cool. Kinda looking forward to seeing how far you can take Marscoin.

[tylerderden]

lets see no scamcoin, fair launch. no bittrex wont add it. binary cock said no. this whole thing is just a joke anymore

[novalis788]

... to seeing how far you can take Marscoin.

literally 

[novalis788]

The android wallet has been updated now as well:

http://marscoin.org/downloads/wallet-1.2.apk

[tylerderden]

^^^^ is this legit or what?

[catchcoin]

I don't know why anyone would create so many coins.

[novalis788]

Hey guys!

We have just added Marscoin to Cryptonator's services, which means you can use all its free features now

• Convert its price to any other crypto or fiat using converter
• Check progress with Winners & Losers
• Track value of all owned coins using Portfolio
• Find Exchanges which trades MRS
• Place fully customizable price tickers on your website

Should you own an iPhone or an Android device, we also have all these in our free mobile apps for iOS / Android

Cheers

thanks! app looks awesome!

[novalis788]

MARS just got listed  on C-CEX:

https://c-cex.com/?p=mrs-btc