Following on from some recent research into Cryptocurrencies, I've been looking at the somewhat unique Huntercoin. It claims to be a so-called "human mine-able" cryptocurrency. I'm not so much interested at the moment in actually playing what I presume is some kind of online game for mining the coins, as I see there is a core … Continue reading Huntercoin node on Ubuntu 16.04
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Building a Namecoin server with Ubuntu 16.04
In what has turned out to be an in-depth look at multiple cryptocurrencies recently, I've been having a deeper look into Namecoin. This research has meant having to spin up test virtual machines and since Ubuntu 16.04 is my server OS of choice (the 64-bit LTS server version) here's how I've setup a Namecoin node. Your results … Continue reading Building a Namecoin server with Ubuntu 16.04
