Posted by Cynthia Vaughn
Decred (CURRENCY:DCR) traded 0.3% higher against the U.S. dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 10:00 AM ET on January 29th. One Decred coin can now be purchased for $15.99 or 0.00463647 BTC on popular exchanges including OOOBTC, Tux Exchange, Nanex and Cryptopia. Decred has a total market capitalization of $147.
60 million and approximately $1.58 million worth of Decred was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. In the last seven days, Decred has traded 6.8% lower against the U.S. dollar.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours: Get Decred alerts: Dash (DASH) traded 2.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $68.66 or 0.01990303 BTC. Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) traded 2.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.72 or 0.
00020901 BTC. Hshare (HSR) traded down 29.9% against the dollar and now trades at $2.26 or 0.00034804 BTC. Aeternity (AE) traded 2.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.
38 or 0.00010893 BTC. Stratis (STRAT) traded down 0.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.82 or 0.00023662 BTC. PIVX (PIVX) traded up 1.
8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.68 or 0.00019813 BTC. ReddCoin (RDD) traded down 2.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.
0012 or 0. 36 BTC. BitcoinDark (BTCD) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $16.23 or 0.
00246929 BTC.
Enigma (ENG) traded down 1.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.26 or 0.
00007625 BTC. Nectar (NEC) traded up 1.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.21 or 0.00005998 BTC.
Decred Coin Profile Decred (CRYPTO:DCR) is a PoW/PoS coin that uses the Blake-256 hashing algorithm.
Its launch date was February 8th, 2016. Decred’s total supply is 9,229,468 coins. Decred’s official message board is medium.com/decred . Decred’s official website is www.decred.
org . The Reddit community for Decred is /r/decred and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here . Decred’s official Twitter account is @decredproject and its Facebook page is accessible here .
According to CryptoCompare, “The features below are implemented in Decred and will be available in full at launch. For a deeper description, please consult the Decred Technical Brief. Novel hybridized proof-of-work/proof-of-stake (PoW/PoS) consensus system – A decentralized lottery is used to select PoS miners to vote on PoW blocks.
The PoW and PoS subsidies account for 60% and 30% of each total block subsidy, respectively. This system is based on that of MC2, which is very similar to, but developed independently from, Proof-of-Activity (PoA) by Iddo Bentov, Charles Lee, Alex Mizrahi and Meni Rosenfeld.Cold staking and decentralized stake pooling – The ability to generate new coins without the risk of having your coins online when PoS mining. The PoS mining system has also been engineered with distributed, decentralized stake pooling in mind, so that even those with small amounts of stake can participate in network validation.Internal voting system for the addition of new features and hard or soft fork selection – Both PoW and PoS miners can vote for features and issues through bit flags, providing a sensible mechanism for resolving disputes about the features of the blockchain.Immutable transaction hashes (“transaction IDs”) by separating transaction signatures from the rest of the transaction data – A permanent fix for transaction hash malleability has been implemented that prevents mutability of the transaction hash by separating it from its input signatures.
This allows more efficient SPV validation. Fraud proofs have also been added.Elliptic curve cryptography over secp256k1 with optional Curve25519 support – The Bitcoin scripting system has been modified to allow for simple, drop-in addition of new elliptical curve digital signature algorithms.Schnorr signatures with threshold n-of-n support – In addition to supporting Schnorr signatures, groups of signers can now jointly sign transactions off-chain in constant size signatures, ensuring higher privacy and less blockchain bloat.Script enhancements and new OP codes – New OP codes have been added to the existing Bitcoin scripting engine, and extensions for the plug-in use of future scripting engines have been added.
PoW mining using BLAKE256 hash algorithm – Inspired by Bernstein’s Chacha stream cipher, SHA3 finalist BLAKE256 offers speed as well as high security.Compatibility with Bitcoin transaction scripting system – Decred’s scripting system has been derived from Bitcoin’s with care in ensuring that all future updates to the Bitcoin transaction script will be easily extensible to Decred. Further, any newly created functionalities will also be devised with backwards compatibility with Bitcoin in mind.Modularized, easy-to-use Golang btcsuite codebase – Thanks the to the codebase inherited from btcsuite, adding new features to the daemon or wallet will be facile. Decred will episodically sync updates from btcsuite, so that it benefits from the latest developments in Bitcoin.Hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets – Wallets use a seed to deterministically generate addresses, so your wallet can be restored from a single BIP0032 seed.Transaction expiration – Transactions have a new expiration field to prevent inclusion into the blockchain after a certain height.
Patches for intrinsic Bitcoin bugs – Extra push for multisignature scripts has been removed, SIGHASH_SINGLE behavior has been corrected.Approximately 21 million coins – Exponential decay in subsidy or the number of coins generated per year.Self-funded development via block subsidy – In order to have an ongoing source of funding for development work, a consensus rule has been added to allocate 10% of each block subsidy to a development organization. This entity is transparent and responsible for funding development work performed by current and new developers so that the project remains sustainable without a funding dependence on outside forces in the future. Decred therefore improves with growth in a sustainable way and is accountable only to its users. “
Buying and Selling Decred
Decred can be purchased on the following cryptocurrency exchanges: Cryptopia, Tux Exchange, OKEx, Nanex, Bittrex, DragonEX, Bleutrade, OOOBTC, YoBit, Poloniex, Upbit, Kucoin and Huobi.
It is usually not possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Decred directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Decred should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, GDAX or Coinbase .
Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Decred using one of the aforementioned exchanges. Receive News & Updates for Decred updates for Decred and related cryptocurrencies CryptoBeat newsletter . «.