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 ...

With dedicated Scrypt ASICs on the horizon, many of the Scrypt coins out there are calling for changes in their chosen coins’ algorithms. It’s a bid for mining with a GPU to remain feasible. Earlier today two members of the Litecoin development team took to the LitecoinTalk forums to express their reasoning behind not changing the coin’s algorithm. The main ...