What is MaxCoin?

An alternative cryptocurrency disrupting the already rather disrupting crypto market.

Technical Information

• 250,000,000 coins
• 96 coins rewarded per block, halving every ~12 months
• minimum reward of 1 coin per block
• 30 second block times
• difficulty retargeting using Kimoto Gravity Well

Notable differences from Bitcoin

• replacement of ECDSA with Schnorr signing
• use of secp256r1 curve over secp256k1
• requirement for public key when verifying transactions
• modification to RPC interface s.t. public keys are Base64 encoded

Modifications to the RPC API

• verifymessage

Forked from Bitcoin reference wallet 0.8.5 and Blakecoin

License

MaxCoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.