Quote from: maxsolnc on December 10, 2013, 10:19:11 AM

Quote from: cryptrol on December 10, 2013, 10:18:12 AM

Quote from: skaffen on December 10, 2013, 09:48:20 AM

I downloaded datacoin and was surprised to see the difficulty at above 9. I'm just wondering, is it possible to merge-mine this, or at least to re-use the cunningham chains from the Primecoin block chain? If it's possible, I'd say some clever person is getting a lot of blocks!

That's interesting, and I have been thinking about it also, if in the end DTC could be merge-mined with XPM that would be definately good for the coin, and that would also mean that both coins would share the same difficulty. I can't see a reason why the prime chains accepted by XPM couldn't be accepted for DTC, but they could be chained somehow in the blockchain.

Let's wait and see. Roll Eyes

Yeah, with the same difficulty and merge-mining it can be awesome union for both coins.

In case of merged mining one of blockchains is parent (has much higher difficulty) and another one is auxiliary and has lower difficulty. This is not the case of Datacoin and Primecoin as soon as difficulties are very close to each other now: 10.x for Primecoin and 9.x for Datacoin. Thus there is no way to do merged mining in the near future.

Please see details here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Merged_mining_specification