What is Blakecoin?
Blakecoin is a experimental cryptographic digital currency that enables payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Blakecoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing coins are carried out collectively by the network.
Blakecoin is a Open Source project and is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING file in the GitHub Source for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Introduction to Blakecoin by Bzyzny
Blakecoin is now Merged Mined with Photon, BlakeBitcoin, Electron, Universal Molecule and Lithium *Other coins due to join the merge Soon
Familiarize yourself with merge mining now: Info Here
Read about the AuxPOW specification: Info Here
Main Forum Threads:
Litecointalk
Cryptocointalk
Social
Forked from Bitcoin reference wallet 0.8.6
Blakecoin Wallet on Github
Blake-256(optimized) is faster than Scrypt, SHA-256D, Keccak, Groestl
The algorithm was written as a candidate for SHA-3, Based on round one candidate code from the Sphlib 2.1 library and reduced the round function to 8 rounds.
From the Youtube Presentation for Blake Hash
by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
https://www.youtube.com/user/blakehash?feature=watch
“Advantages
Design
• simplicity of the algorithm
• interface for hashing with a salt
Performance
• fast in both software and hardware
• parallelism and throughput/area trade-off for hardware implementation
• simple speed/confidence trade-off with the tunable number of rounds
Security
• based on an intensively analyzed component (ChaCha)
• resistant to generic second-preimage attacks
• resistant to side-channel attacks
• resistant to length-extension”
https://131002.net/blake/blake.pdf
Why Blakecoin beats other cryptographic currencies in the long run:
- The Blake-256 algorithm hash rate is just under 3x faster on the GPU and just over 2x on the FPGA compared with Bitcoin
- Blakecoin uses a custom asymmetrical difficulty re-target algorithm since it was released which has worked well
- The reward for mining Blakecoin does Not decrease over time it only increases with block height and difficulty
- No restriction on any platform as Blakecoin does not include artificial *Security* or *Resistance* that reduce mining hash rate and power efficiency
- Already has planned use for Blakecoin as a currency storage between MMO systems with prototypes in development(see below for preview)
- Designed to be Merge Mine Friendly
- Block reward is 25 coin + inflation (square root of (difficulty * block height))
- No reduction of block reward
- Cap in place to reduce the difficulty jumps upwards
- Block target time is 3 minutes and retargets every 20 blocks
- Total of 7 Billion coins
- Block maturity 120 (+20 buffer 140 Total)
8 round Blake-256 is the fastest!
- 6.4GH/s – 6.9GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 295X2
- 3.3GH/s – 3.5GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 290X
- 2.9GH/s – 3.1GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 290
- 2.6GH/s – 2.8GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 280X
- 2.2GH/s – 2.4GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 280
- 1.2GH/s – 1.5GH/s on a AMD Radeon R9 270
- 4.8GH/s – 5.1GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 7990
- 2.2GH/s – 2.8GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 7970
- 2.1GH/s – 2.4GH/s on a AMD ATI Radeon 7950
- 1.6GH/s on a ZTEX USB-FPGA 1.15y Quad Spartan-6 LX150 Development Board
- 1.5GH/s on a Enterpoint Cairnsmore 1 Quad Spartan-6 LX150 Development Board
- 960MH/s on a Lancelot Dual Spartan-6 LX150 Development Board
- 360MH/s on a ZTEX USB-FPGA 1.15x Spartan-6 LX150 Development Board
- 2.5GH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 1060
- 4.1GH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 980ti
- 3.05GH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 980
- 2.63GH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 970
- 1.71GH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 960
- 930MH/s on a NVIDIA GeForce 750ti
Tweaks:
Removed some of the double hashing from the wallet to improve performance made possible by the advantages of the Blake Algorithm.
Exchanges:
C-patex allows trading of Blakecoin *Thanks to c-patex Team the Whole Blake ecosystem of coins is supported
Merged Mine Pools *Currently BLC+PHO+Ƀ+ELT+UMO+LIT
Blakecoin EU3 Merged Pool *Located in Frankfurt
Blakecoin NY2/AT1 Merged Pool *Located in Atlanta
Blakecoin LA1 Merged Pool *Located in Los Angeles
Block Explorer:
Market Tools
Blakecoin is listed on Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations
Blakecoin is listed on CoinGecko
Blakecoin is listed on WorldCoinIndex
Blakecoin is listed on Bitscreener
Games
BattleGrip is a Free to Play first-person shooter with some strategy and Tactical Shooter elements.
Players fight in a modern setting, using modern weapon systems.
The multiplayer aspect of the game allows players to pick classes and organize into squads to promote teamwork.
Players can Earn in game with BlakeStream coin rewards and also buy items and content with the earning via the in game store or web shop.
We strive to keep a good fun game experience for all and enable anyone to earn by just playing BattleGrip.
it is also possible to earn for other games via our BlakeZone platform and also mine or buy on exchange.
*currently the BlakeZone MMO is being remastered in latest Unity Engine(lots of api changes) also working on higher quaility game assets too PBR 4k etc.. and is not due to go back into beta until mid/late 2019
Splash and Menu video preview using Unity 5 from the official post apocalyptic survival MMO FPS that is in development
Thanks to the efforts of knorrly, Blakecoin has been successfully ported to Abe