An illustration of memory-hard proof of work. The hash function is not chosen yet, so these are not real hashes.

Mining

Bring a graphics card.

Not a special machine.

ATON uses one . It is chosen so an ordinary graphics card can compete, and purpose-built machines cannot pull ahead.

How it works

From a try to a block

1

Your miner collects the payments waiting to go in, and names every block it has seen at the s as a .

2

It tries again and again to make the block's fall under the . Every try reads a lot of memory.

3

As soon as a try succeeds, the block goes out to the network. Every checks the work before it accepts the block.

4

Your block pays you new units from the . Blocks that other miners find at the same moment are kept and ordered too.

What you will need

A gaming or workstation with its own memory. How much memory it needs depends on the hash function, which is not chosen yet.

The card sits in a computer that can stay on and online while it mines.

The and the mining software. Neither is released yet.

An address of your own on the network, where the units from your blocks are paid.

Not settled yet

This page has no launch date, no hash rates and no reward figures, because none of them is settled. They go into the specification first, then here.

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