Kind Of a Roadmap, Twice. Pt. 2

Rising regulatory pressure and new technologies are reshaping decentralized services. The Peercoin Foundation is investing heavily in tools for builders to create scalable, private, and censorship-resistant decentralized applications.

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Kind of a Roadmap, Twice. Pt. 1

Rising regulatory pressure and new technologies are reshaping decentralized services. The Peercoin Foundation is investing heavily in tools for builders to create scalable, private, and censorship-resistant decentralized applications.

Mining For Peercoin At Home

Why I Mine For Peercoin Mining doesn't provide the sole or most significant source of blockchain security in the Peercoin Network. It more directly serves the purpose of achieving an equitable distribution of peercoins. Peercoin encourages participants from around the globe to do their part in claiming new

Pooled Minting with Threshold Signatures

Among many other things first introduced with Peercoin, such as destroying the transaction fee, a coherent inflation rate, or minimum dust limit, the original authors of Peercoin were also the first to implement Proof-Of-Stake consensus. Peercoin minting requires a full node and complete blockchain history. To participate in proof-of-stake consensus

What it Took to Fork

The Peercoin network successfully completed a hard fork to v0.12 Ladybug last night, finally attaining the 90% on-chain consensus required to activate the fork.  This monumental feat took far longer than originally anticipated, and included lots of lessons learned along the way. To start, we should have some abstract

Peercoin v0.12 (Codename Ladybug) Released, Upgrade by April 17, 2023!

We are proud to announce the release of Peercoin v0.12 (Codename Ladybug). This is a mandatory upgrade. Please upgrade by April 17th, 2023. A hard fork will occur once the following conditions are met: * April 17th, 2023, 12:00 UTC has passed. * 90% of the last 1,000 blocks

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Future of Smart Contracts

Rising regulatory pressure and new technologies will change the way we build and use decentralized services built with smart contracts.

Immutable.Place Tutorial

Learn how to use immutable.place, a collaborative pixel art project hosted on the Peercoin blockchain.

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Introducing Immutable.place

Immutable.place is a collaborative pixel art project hosted on the Peercoin blockchain.

Foundation Now Holds 1% of the Total Peercoin Supply

Open letter from the Peercoin Project Leader and Foundation Board Member, Peerchemist, to the community, supporters, and sympathizers of the project. You will often see me argue that Peercoin is the only true Proof-of-Stake chain because it allows everyone to be a "validator" or simply a "block

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Introduction to Multisig Minting

Multisig minting is a coordinated effort of all multisig address key-holders to create a proof-of-stake block.

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Wrapmeister Bridge Introduction

Wrapmeister is a software stack that allows for cross-blockchain communication between Peercoin and Ethereum.

Minters Get Richer

You don’t have to be Rich to Mint Peercoin.

Peercoin vs. Excel

Many proposed blockchain applications share a lot in common with a spreadsheet/database. Where does Peercoin and cryptocurrency stand out?

A Smarter Fee

Cryptocurrency has its roots firmly in spam and denials of service. The pioneers of Proof-of-Work took the computation of a puzzle to be a…

A Peercoin Propaganda Piece

Let’s talk motivation. What makes you get out of bed in the morning? Why do you want to stay in bed in the morning? There is a constant…

Who Governs Peercoin?

Peercoin is one of the original pioneering cryptocurrencies, launched in 2012 and responsible for the first implementation of…

Peercoin Foundation Sponsors Thesis on Use of Blockchain Tech in International Trade &…

Thesis Sponsorship

Peercoin Inflation Adjustment

A continuous coin inflation helps the Peercoin economy grow and prosper.

Perpera Protocol

Perpera is an implementation of the PeerAssets DataAudit protocol which was first presented as an PeerAssets RFC in June, 2018. Perpera is…

Team Updates #39: Peercoin January Monthly Summary

A monthly summary for January 2020

Team Updates #37: Peercoin October Monthly Summary

Team Updates #37: Peercoin October Monthly Summary

The Peercoin Team Launches VSYS Candidate Node

Introducing Peercoin VPool

Peercoin Minting Tutorial

This will be a tutorial on how to mint using the Peercoin Core Wallet. Before, we will have a brief review of Proof-of-Stake and its…

Team Update #34: Peercoin August Monthly Summary

Team Update #34: Peercoin August Monthly Summary