knightrobby / kings-stones

The main source tree for the Max Coin cryptocurrency

What is Kings Stones?

An alternative cryptocurrency disrupting the already rather disrupting crypto market.

Technical Information

• ~28477200 coins (Kingstons current population 23,731 muliplied by the average costs of rent for a one room apt plus utilities 1,200USD)
• 8 coins rewarded per block, halving every 4 years (Current minimum wage is 7.25USD assuming that Kings Stones are worth 1.00USD miners will recieve 8 coins per hour)
• 60 minutes block times
• difficulty retargeting using a time-warp resistant implementation of KGW

Notable differences from Bitcoin

• replacement of ECDSA with Schnorr signing
• use of secp256r1 curve over secp256k1
• requirement for public key when verifying transactions

Modifications to the RPC API

• verifymessage
• makekeypair [hex-encoded prefix]
• dumppubkey

Additional technical details can be found in the Wiki.

Forked from Maxcoin reference wallet 0.8.5 and Blakecoin

License

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