BBQcoin

BBQCoin often abbreviated to BBQ or BQC is a scrypt based blockchain fork of the original bitcoin source code, very similar to litecoin and launched only a short while after Litecoin.

Specs of the coin

  • Each block generates 42 coins
  • Difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
  • block generated every 1 minute
  • Will never cease generating coins. “see coin generation schedule”
  • Block reward halves every 24 million blocks or around every 45 years.
  • Uses the Scrypt hashing algorithm

Exchanges

POOL:

http://coin-base.org/bbqcoin/

1% POOL FEE

Payoutsystem prop

only 30 confirms

LP

  1. Create account.
    • Register here, or login if you already have account
    • Create a worker that will be used by the miner to login
  2. Download a CPU miner.
    • Windows users: download a “batteries” included package for 64-bit or 32-bit Windows. These packages include Pooler’s cpuminer 2.1.2 and Matoking’s GUI r6, updated 2012-02-03.
      Extract the files into a folder and start the included ScryptMiner.
      If you don’t want a graphical user interface, you can download an optimized command-line miner here.
    • Linux users: download and compile cpuminer. Under Debian and Ubuntu, you can use the following recipe: 
        sudo apt-get install make automake build-essential git libcurl4-openssl-dev
  git clone git://github.com/pooler/cpuminer.git
  cd cpuminer
  ./autogen.sh
  ./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
  make
[for HTTP]    ./minerd --url http://coin-base.org:8415/ --userpass Weblogin.Worker:Worker password
[for STRATUM] ./minerd --url stratum+tcp://coin-base.org:3415/ --userpass Weblogin.Worker:Worker password
    • Mac OS X users: precompiled binaries are available here.
  3. Download a GPU miner.
  4. Configure your miner.
    Start your miner using the following parameters:

    URL: http://coin-base.org/
    HTTP PORT: 8415
    STRATUM PORT: 3415
    Username: Weblogin.Worker
    Password: Worker Password

    If you use a command-line miner, type:

    [for HTTP]    ./minerd --url http://coin-base.org:8415/ --userpass Weblogin.Worker:Worker password
[for STRATUM] ./minerd --url stratum+tcp://coin-base.org:3415/ --userpass Weblogin.Worker:Worker password

    If you want, you can create additional workers with usernames and passwords of your choice Here

  5. Create a bbqcoin address to recieve payments.
    • Downloading the bbqcoin client from the website
      . Generate a new address and input it on your account page to receive payments.
  6. Optional (linux): Keeping miner updated
    • Updateting manual: 
            cd cpuminer
      git pull
      make clean
      ./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
      make
[for HTTP]    ./minerd --url http://coin-base.org:8415/ --userpass Weblogin.Worker:Worker Password
[for STRATUM] ./minerd --url stratum+tcp://coin-base.org:3415/ --userpass Weblogin.Worker:Worker password