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Re:Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin by antonios on Friday February 21, 2014 @03:25PM (#7279182)
Here you go: http://www.nxtcrypto.org/

100% Proof of stake, 1 minute blocks, no mining.

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Re:Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin by zerorbit on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:30PM (#7279567)
Isn't that a pyramid scheme? To have any nxt, you need to buy it from someone else.
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Re:Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin by jabgrabdthrow on Saturday February 22, 2014 @01:26AM (#7281167)
Is precious metal a pyramid scheme? o.O
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Re:Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin by gnaritas on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:12PM (#7279474)
And not a clone of Bitcoin and thus no reason to presume it's not full of bugs and security exploits. Bitcoin is king for a reason, it's survived the scrutiny; any alt coin that chooses to do a complete rewrite is in for a long hard road to come anywhere close to the trust Bitcoin has earned.
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