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What is Monacoin?
Monacoin is Japan's first cryptocurrency, created in December 2013.
NOTE: The official version of Monacoin was released on January 1, 2014.
Monacoin is based on the famous ASCII art "Mona" on 5ch (formerly 2ch).
Also, Monacoin was developed by Mr. Watanabe, who operated "2chpool," a mining pool for Litecoin and other cryptocurrencies.
The mining algorithm for Monacoin is Lyra2REv2, which is Proof-of-Work (PoW) and ASIC-resistant.
Prior to the 450,000 blocks, scrypt was used.
Monacoin is a fork of Bitcoin, developed in the C++ language and published on GitHub.
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$ git clone https://github.com/monacoinproject/monacoin |
These videos explain Monacoin.
There is also a video of "Hiroyuki" (Hiroyuki Nishimura), the founder of 5ch (formerly 2ch)!
How to Buy Monacoin
We introduce how to buy Monacoin.
The main cryptocurrency exchange where Monacoin can be purchased is CoinEx (click here for cryptocurrency exchanges where you can trade).
Summary
This article introduced Japan's first cryptocurrency, Monacoin.
Monacoin is based on the famous ASCII art "Mona" on 5ch (formerly 2ch).
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