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Emercoin Specifications
Emercoin (EMC) is a cryptocurrency with hybrid PoS and PoW mining (merge-mined with Bitcoin). Coin generation is focused mostly on production of coins by energy-conservative PoS as PoW difficulty gradually increases over time.
| Total Supply: | Algorithmically increasing at approx. 6% per year [click here for latest stats]. |
| Block frequency: | 10 minute average. |
| PoW Algorithm: | SHA-256 (merge-mined with Bitcoin). |
| PoW block reward: | 5020 EMC, decreasing according to PoW difficulty.Formula: Reward = 5020 / sqrt(sqrt(difficulty)) |
| PoS reward: | Approx. 6% pa. |
| PoS stake-weight maturity: | 30 days. |
| Max. stake-weight: | 90 days. |
| Difficulty adjustment: | Recalculated each block. Adjustment gradually increases over time to favor PoS minting. |
| Maturity for newly mined reward: | 32 blocks until new coins can be spent. |
| Base58Check encoding address prefix: | 33 |
| Default p2p port: | 6661 |
| Default RPC port: | 6662 |