Technicals: -scrypt (USC codebase for merged mining support) -100,000,000 eCoins -30 second block times -100 confirmations per block -staggered block rewards: blocks 0-500:25 eCoins, 501-1000: 50 eCoins, 1001-2000:75 eCoins, 2001+:100 eCoins (resuming normal halving schedule after reaching 100 eCoin block rewards -block halving interval: every 500,000 blocks (or about every 173.6 days) -diff re-target: once per day