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[ANN] Announcing Galaxycoin - GLX, the new PoW/PoS coin, no premine!
by
arlington
on 08/07/2013, 06:21:36 UTC


Version 1.3 is released (download links updated). It added more checkpoints so the client will be more secure. This is not a mandatory upgrade, but you are still encouraged to upgrade to get a more secure version.


Announcing galaxycoin - GLX, the latest and innovative PoW/PoS coin! Fair start with zero premined!

Galxycoin is a descedant of Novacoin, it uses both Proof of Work and Proof of Stake. It is effectively resistent to 51% attack. It provides steady coin supply at 64 coins per block, for 8 years. The difficulty retargeted each block, with the last 10 blocks average, this ensures a fast adjustment to the network hashrate, while maintaining a stable transition. The total coins mined will be 538,214,400 coins.

Galaxycoin has a fair start and zero premined, making it one of the best of the alt coins exist today.


Specifications:
- Proof of work/proof of stake
- Scrypt
- 30 seconds block time
- 64 coins per block
- Retarget every block using last 10 blocks average
- Trade confirmation: 3
- Mint confirmation: 50
- Total number of coins 538,214,400 (8 Years)
- fair start, no premine
- port: Connection 15521 and RPC Port 15522




Exchange:

Cryptsy.com:
https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/78

Coins-e.com:
https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/GLX_BTC/



Mining Pool:

Feeleep's Stratum pool:
http://glx.coinmine.pl
Stratum Port: 9106


Blockchain explorer (thanks to diatonic):

http://glx.webboise.com:2790/chain/Galaxycoin



Download (version 1.3):

Windows Client Download:
https://mega.co.nz/#!Z94niaaK!g4FoHAHyoaB6oZ3zRYM38FJsBFNaOknd-qn4cTlLej8



Source Code Download:

https://github.com/galaxycoin/galaxycoin



Sample galaxycoin.conf:

listen=1
daemon=1
server=1
rpcuser=**Yourusername**
rpcpassword=**Yourpassword**
rpcport=15522
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
addnode=107.203.9.69
addnode=139.228.150.13
addnode=113.162.172.225
addnode=72.133.203.38


Getting Started:

1. Start up galaxycoin-qt, wait for it to load, then exit.
2. Put galaxycoin.conf (see sample file above) in your c:/users/**yourcomputername**/AppData/Roaming/galaxycoin
3. restart galaxycoin-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 --scrypt -o localhost:15522 -u **yourusername** -p **password** (without **)