Posted by Rob Logan on Apr 30th, 2018 // No Comments
Decred (CURRENCY:DCR) traded down 4.6% against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 23:00 PM E.T. on April 22nd. Decred has a market capitalization of $598.
12 million and $2.81 million worth of Decred was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Decred coin can currently be purchased for $83.70 or 0.00888176 BTC on major exchanges including Bittrex, Cryptopia, Nanex and Tux Exchange. During the last week, Decred has traded up 28.9% against the U.
S. dollar.
Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours: Get Decred alerts: Dash (DASH) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $498.68 or 0.05291540 BTC. Aeternity (AE) traded 0.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $4.83 or 0.00051225 BTC.
Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) traded 6.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.63 or 0.00059756 BTC.
Stratis (STRAT) traded up 8.2% against the dollar and now trades at $7.
18 or 0.00076224 BTC. Hshare (HSR) traded 6.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $12.55 or 0.00133168 BTC.
PIVX (PIVX) traded up 1.2% against the dollar and now trades at $5.67 or 0.00060208 BTC. ReddCoin (RDD) traded up 7.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.
0094 or 0. 100 BTC. BitcoinDark (BTCD) traded down 0.7% against the dollar and now trades at $107.66 or 0.01142400 BTC.
Emercoin (EMC) traded 3.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $3.24 or 0.00034357 BTC. TokenPay (TPAY) traded down 5.7% against the dollar and now trades at $8.29 or 0.00087958 BTC.
Decred Profile
Decred (CRYPTO:DCR) is a PoW/PoS coin that uses the Blake-256 hashing algorithm. It launched on February 8th, 2016. Decred’s total supply is 7,565,743 coins and its circulating supply is 7,145,743 coins. The official website for Decred 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 message board is medium.com/decred .
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 bought or sold on these cryptocurrency exchanges: Cryptopia, OOOBTC, Nanex, YoBit, Upbit, Bleutrade, fex, Tux Exchange, Poloniex and Bittrex. It is usually not possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Decred directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Decred should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Changelly, Gemini or Coinbase . Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Decred using one of the exchanges listed above.
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