photonproject / photon

Photon a cryptocurrency based on the blake 256 algorithm -

photonproject

Forked from Bitcoin reference wallet 0.8.5 and Blake Coin

Photon is a cryptocurrency designed to use the Blake 256 algorithm cloned from Blake Coin.

Blake-256(optimized) faster than scrypt and faster than sha256 in C (asm is still faster for sha256d)

The algorithm was written as a candidate for sha3, Based on round one candidate code from the sphlib 2.1 and reduced the compression function to 8.

Tweaks Removed some of the double hashing from the wallet as it is wasteful on compute, No changes to the ecdsa public/private function as that has proven to be secure so far on bitcoin.

What is Blakecoin?

Blakecoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Blakecoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing of coins are carried out collectively by the network.

What is Photon ?

A clone of Blakecoin with a few changes. The standard block award of Photon is 32,768 BUT as the block chain grows the award will increase. The amount it increases is directly related to the current difficulty and height of the blockchain. Miners will get 32,768 coins plus the square root of blockchain height multiplied by the current difficulty. Still as Photon's are plentiful in the universe the max money is set to 90,000,000,000 That is 90 Billion Photons. Difficulty retargets every 20 blocks with a target of a new block to be produced every 3 minutes. Up to block 3500 the max adjustment is 15% up each retarget. After block 3500 the max adjustment is 3% up each retarget.

Ubuntu 12.04 dependancies that are used on the Linux build machine:

git-core build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev libgtk2.0-dev libminiupnpc-dev qt4-qmake mingw32 synaptic qt-sdk qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libqt4-core libqt4-gui libdb++-dev

License

Photon is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Blakecoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

photon's Issues

Wallet Logo (Artwork)

Logo artwork for photon-qt.exe "icon" needs to be updated to current Photon icon ... as well as the icon for the window top bar.

how and where can I mine photon?

recognized as virus

The windows defender recognizes the wallet as virus as blocks it. Is there any way that you can prevent this? It happens with various mining software too.

Missing Makefile in leveldb

As reported in the forum 3 days ago, I am still unable to build the wallet for photon.
Completely missed the opening and the giveaway, can't be helped. But maybe you can help support CoinsManager after we generate an address for it.

Thank you

Making A New Website http://photoncoin.org/

Hey Guys,

I was looking over the code, I think this is a interesting project. I would be interested in building you a new website at http://photoncoin.org/.

I will do it for free for the community.

Let know if you are interested or have access to the server. I can provide hosting

MacOS Wallet ?

Is there a MacOS wallet release? Thanks!

known problem building on ubuntu 16.04

I hope to have a patch out this week to fix issues building this on ubuntu 16.04 - looks like an updated to the version of level db is necessary.

Change overflows into fees

when using the coincontrol feature it can overflow if the change exceeds 90M in some rare cases
3 times afaik!!

if using that feature select inputs that ~match the amount your sending so change does not overflow until its patched for (limit/fail on overflow rather than sending the tx with excessive fees)