Launch Date: 19 July 2014 12:00 EST - Smooth launch, thanks to all pools and miners for participating in the launch

No premine. No IPO.

Specifications

• Block time: 60 seconds
• Difficulty retarget: every block
• Nominal stake interest: 2% annually
• Min transaction fee: 0.0001 SDC
• Fees are paid to miners
• Confirmations: 10, maturity: 500
• Min stake age: 8 hours, no max age
• P2P port: 51737, RPC port: 51736

Proof of work

• Algo: scrypt
• Block reward:
  
  • 1-120: 1 SDC (Fair launch)
  • 120 - 50000 31000: 400 SDC PoW reward, no halving
• Max height: 50000 31000 (after this network will not accept PoW)
• PoW supply: ~20 million ~6.5 million SDC after 1 Month ~2 weeks (Could be lowered substantially with high staking weight)

Downloads

• Windows - 1.0.0
• Mac - 1.0.0
• Github Source

Explorers

• http://explorer.shadowcoin.co/

Exchanges

• FoBCoin
  
  
  C-CEX
  
  
• SWISSCEX
  
  
  
• BITTREX - Special thanks to cryptowest for reviewing our code
  
  
  
• Vote for ShadowCoin on BTER

Pools

• altpooler
• minerpools
• pool.mn - 0.99% fee
• coinminers
• jempool
• gc-pool
• Chickenstrips

Hi guys,

We are pleased to reveal that we have dedicated team comprised of several highly qualified developers that are working full-time on innovative features to be added to ShadowCoin. We will not make promises or provide a "roadmap" as other coins have, but we will announce and release the features as they are completed.

The new ShadowChat wallet is now available:
http://www.shadowcoin.co/downloads/shadowcoin_1.0.0.0_win32.zip
http://www.shadowcoin.co/downloads/shadowcoin_1.0.0.0_MacOSX.zip

Introducing: ShadowChat
The first feature completed is our Instant P2P Encrypted Messaging System... aka ShadowChat! This is the first system of it's kind in crypto currency!  Below you will find links to both a demo video + whitepaper... enjoy!

We've put together a demo video of the EM UI that will be released for our ShadowChat system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra9E7Il6hps

We've also put together a whitepaper regarding the ShadowChat EM details:
ShadowCoin Secure Messaging: A p2p Encrypted Instant Messaging System