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March 28, 2014, 10:25:33 AM |
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This is the email I've sent at the request of the chinese community who are interested in myriad, I will post it here because I think it makes a good read for the core community aswell:
What is the myriad project ?
It is a crypto currency like bitcoin but that's about all it has in common with bitcoin. I dare to say myriad's concept is better than bitcoin's, or any other coin for that matter, it's a big step in the future of the phenomenon known as crypto currency. These are not just words and marketing, Myriad proves its superiority every passing day. Allow me to explain how and why: Myriad is the first coin to implement the concept of multi-hashing, meaning, myriad does not run on a single algorythm or a chunk of algorythms chained together, it runs on 5 parallel algorythms. They are: sha256d, scrypt, skein, groestl and qubit.
What does this mean ?
It means that each algorythm works independently from the others to secure the network while using the same blockchain. It also means that each algorythm can be mined individually providing ALL miners a fair chance of generating coins. Myriad welcomes everyone, asic users, gpu users and cpu users. This not only makes the network more secure, it also ensures a fair and wide distribution of the generated coins avoiding one of the other big problems bitcoin is facing: most coins being generated by industrial mining farms controlled by rich investors. Another proven fact is that the concept of multi-hashing also provides much better protection against 51% attacks because while an attacker could gain 51% of one single algorythm it's highly improbable that he could gain 51% of the hashing power for all algorythms so if any one algorythm suffers a fork the other for will be working with the remaining 49% of the attacked algorythm to keep the network secure and your transactions safe (this has recently been proven when cryptopool.eu owning over 51% of the scrypt hashing power forked and the networks reaction was PERFECT) . This is also the best security against multipools attack because they can only target one algorythm they can only aquire 20% of the total coins since the coins are split up equally between algorythms and each algorythm gets TOTAL COINS 5 .
Other advantages the Myriad project has to offer include, but are not limited to:
- coin profitability switching: miners can watch the profitability of the coin on each algo and if the algorythm they are currently mining becomes too difficult for them to mine they can always switch to one of the other algos to maximize profitability.
- power saving algos, for example skein runs about 20% cooler than scrypt and with about 20% less power and groestl runs about 40% cooler using even less power, that also is a factor to take into when calculating profitability.
- network flexibility, using 5 independent algorythms any of the algos can be swapped with others while the other 4 remain intact providing a secure transition from the replaced algorythm to the new one.
- etc. etc.
The list of features the Myriad project has to offer is too large to include in one email while avoiding making it a long and boring email but it is becoming increasingly clear that Myriad is a big step twards the future and the possibilities are amazing when thinking about new ways and services that Myriad can bring to the crypto world.
As I've already described it in the thread (excuse the plastic representation): Myriad is a rose in a sea of rotting carcases , a fresh water lake in the middle of the sahara. It's being held back because it is hard to notice it when 20 hyped premined scam ipo coins emerge daily, but users who do notice it tend to stick around because as it happened to vertcoin people will eventually learn about myriad and see that it trully is the concept to unite the whole mining comunity under one coin, a huge step forward for the crypto currency world.
In conclusion, no matter who you are and what hardware you have you are welcome to mine Myriad and I assure you it will be profitable no matter what technical inovations come to the market. Investors and crypto currency enthusiasts MYR offers more security and decentralization than any other coin in existence, even bitcoin, making it a very promising investment and considering the price and trading volume getting involved in Myriad right now is as good as getting involved from the begining. The community is blossoming day by day and we are all guided by the same principles, progress and fairness to each and every individual.
Thank you for reading, A crypto currency miner who supports progress.
PS: List of TODOS and projects that are in development or are being considered for MYR:
-implementing an RPC command that returns network hashrate per algorythm -algorythm switching mining software for a algo-profit-switching pool -algo-profit-switching pool -andoid wallet -implementation of a 100% proven CPU algorythm (right now qubit and groestl are CPU friendly but not CPU dedicated so while CPU miners can still mine competing with GPUS on fair grounds they still do not have an exclusive algorythm) -adding a metalayer to Myriad (similar to xcp) and the list is evergrowing.
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