Primecoin and Cunningham Prime Chains

 (johndcook.com)

20 points | by ibobev 4 days ago

3 comments

  • MinelloGiacomo 1 hour ago
    This brings me back! During the second year of my bachelor's we had a group project on distributed systems, we basically had to create a blockchain with primecoin PoW, written in service oriented programming language developed at the university of Bologna called Jolie (https://www.jolie-lang.org/)
  • k__ 1 hour ago
    Interesting!

    Does anyone know other innovative PoW chains?

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    • beeflet 1 hour ago
      Monero's RandomX is an interesting PoW scheme one designed to be optimized for CPUs. Here is an interesting read about its design https://github.com/tevador/RandomX/blob/master/doc/design.md

      Chia uses a very memory-hard PoW system and is usually mined on SSDs.

      I've seen a lot of "useful PoW" cryptocurrencies, but they tend to not pan out. For example Gridcoin is just a Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrency with a program that hands out GRC to BOINC contributors.

  • wslh 1 hour ago
    If you wonder about its financial value, its market cap is around $ 2.5m [1].

    [1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/primecoin/