Primecoin VS Monero

Primecoin Reviews

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Primecoin mentions (4)

• Bitcoin is not a Store of Value

  >I think, in the next years, we will see more and more of these useful proofs cropping up. And people will understand the value they're "storing", no pun intended. You could be right, but the first time something like this was discussed was around 2010 [1], and here we are 12 years later, still waiting for widespread implementation of a "useful" proof of work. [1] https://primecoin.io/ was the first result of that. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Mersenne prime M(57885161) verified as 48th Mersenne prime

  One of the first I heard of was Primecoin [0], which still seems to be going along steadily. They've actually uncovered a number of world records [1] looking for Cunningham Chains. [0] https://primecoin.io/ [1] https://primes.zone/#records. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Awesome Bitcoin technical FAQ from MIT: a discussion between professor and students at "Distributed Systems" class / tons of useful Q&As for new&old to Bitcoin

  A: Maybe -- here are two attempts to do what you suggest: https://www.cs.umd.edu/\~elaine/docs/permacoin.pdf http://primecoin.io/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Why not make the proof of work useful?

  The closest we've come to what you might call "useful" proof of work is Primecoin, which searched for chains of prime numbers, to the delight of some mathematicians. But it's pretty much a dead coin now. There are also some coins that appear to have solved it, such as SolarCoin, but look closer and you'll find that they are completely centralised. That's not a trade-off Bitcoin can make. Source: about 3 years ago

Monero mentions (3)

• After "hacks" and withdrawal halts, prices on HTX and Poloniex are still decoupled from the rest of the market.

  A concrete show case: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/ ("sort by volume"). Or see it here: https://i.imgur.com/XWe1SJ1.png. Source: 5 months ago

• A Deep Dive Into Tokenization

  A crypto coin is simply a digital coin, created for making payments. Coins are created to act like money: in other words, they represent a unit of account, store of value, and medium of transfer. Crypto coins tend to take the form of their native blockchain, like with Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC) and Monero (XMR). Source: about 1 year ago

• Could anyone tell me the best step by step guide to mine monero on YouTube or any channel related on how we can build our mining rig to increase the mining efficiency. I have seen a lot of useless videos so iam asking this community for help. Thanks!

  I also recommend https://web.getmonero.org/ as well as https://xmrig.com/ regarding step by step configuration. Source: over 1 year ago

• [Daily Discussion] Saturday, August 20th

  Why is monero's 24 hour trading volume down 35.17% today? https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Bitcoin Mining Company Sells 26,200 Rigs to Eliminate $67M Debts | It has retained 16,000 miners, and is currently selling over 100MW excess power generation.

  Monero has a market cap just shy of $3 billion as of this writing, that seems a bit more than "niche" to me. Source: over 1 year ago