From df9beb5ec940146528bd6f3ca2a85bfc0deebcc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holger Schinzel Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:59:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Darkcoin: corrected launch date and maximum coin supply, according to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.0 --- ch09.asciidoc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ch09.asciidoc b/ch09.asciidoc index a04ddecb..0920eac9 100644 --- a/ch09.asciidoc +++ b/ch09.asciidoc @@ -259,10 +259,10 @@ Monero is another implementation of CryptoNote. It has a slightly flatter issuan *Darkcoin* -Darkcoin was launched in March of 2014. Darkcoin implements anonymous currency using a re-mixing protocol for all transactions called DarkSend. Darkcoin is also notable for using 11 rounds of different hash functions (blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein, luffa, cubehash, shavite, simd, echo) for the Proof-of-Work algorithm. +Darkcoin was launched in January of 2014. Darkcoin implements anonymous currency using a re-mixing protocol for all transactions called DarkSend. Darkcoin is also notable for using 11 rounds of different hash functions (blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein, luffa, cubehash, shavite, simd, echo) for the Proof-of-Work algorithm. * Block generation: 2.5 minutes -* Total currency: 22 million DRK +* Total currency: maximum 22 million DRK * Consensus algorithm: Multi-algorithm Multi-round Proof-of-Work * Market capitalization: $19 million USD in Summer 2014