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Groestlcoin (GRS) has announced that after many requests from their community, the coin will be changed to run on a hybrid Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake(PoS) from early July. This will be a split of 70% mining on PoW with the other 30% coming from PoS. The total coins ever to be released will remain at the same level, but a ...

Everybody is looking for the next cryptocurrency that’s going to take off. There are plenty to choose from already, and new coins are releasing almost daily. So what makes for a good altcoin? It’s a question that’s very difficult to answer in any certain terms. When we look at success stories such as Dogecoin, it really demonstrates that most any ...

The Piggycoin development team have announced that the coin will be seeing some rather big changes in the near future, moving to the X11 algorithm before changing entirely to proof-of-stake (PoS). They’ll also be significantly reducing the total number of mined coins. This move will mean an entirely new blockchain, so you’ll need to trade your old coins for new ...

After the Dogecoin community managed to sponsor Josh Wise’s NASCAR, it was announced a few weeks ago that the “Dogecar” livery would be coming to the NASCAR 2014 video game. Earlier today an employee of Eutechnyx, the game’s developer, posted the above render of how the Dogecoin sponsored car will appear in the game as downloadable content (DLC). There is currently ...

    Bittylicious have announced that they have enabled the ability to buy Bitcoins using a credit card for buyers in the UK and EU. Currently, credit card payments must be purchased in Euros — which could incur a currency transfer fee for those in the UK — but the ability for direct payments in British Pounds and other European ...

BitPay and Toshiba have announced at the 2014 National Restaurant Association show in Chicago that Bitcoin payments will be implemented into Toshiba’s VisualTouch POS system. VisualTouch is a full point-of-sale system that’s used by more than 6,o00 companies (some with up to 1,600 locations) within the Hospitality, Food Service, Grocery, Retail and Concession industries. BitPay integration will mean that any one ...

Ultracoin and BitcoinWoman Magazine are partnering up to sponsor Elsa Hammond’s efforts in the Great Pacific Race. Hammond will be taking part in the 2,400 mile race alone, with only her own rowing power to propel her in a journey that could last up to three months. The journey will take participants from Monterey, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. The Ultracoin community ...

PiggyCoin are calling this week “PiggyWeek”, and have scheduled a bunch of announcements over the duration of the week. Today they have announced the launch of the PiggyCoin Foundation. As with other coin foundations, the PiggyCoin Foundation aims to raise PiggyCoins to be donated towards projects and charities. The announcement reads: PiggyCoin was born out of the ideology of teaching ...

The Reddcoin development team has announced they have designed a brand new algorithm, known as Proof-of-Stake-Velocity (PoSV), which the coin will be moving to in the fairly near future. This new algorithm works similarly to Proof-of-Stake, where users “mint” new coins by demonstrating ownership of your current coins, rather than with the computational power used in more traditional Proof-of-Work coins. ...

An article on CNN has stated that Josh Wise’s Dogecoin NASCAR — that we got a first glimpse of yesterday — will be featuring in the latest edition of the NASCAR video game. According to the article, the car will be added to the game by way of downloadable content (DLC), allowing players to take the moon-bound vehicle out onto ...