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You may have noticed how quiet we have been about GrainCoin lately. Even though we featured GRAIN in our first (and only) issue of Crypto Monthly, things unfortunately went downhill from there. But things might be looking up again.
For those of you unaware, GrainCoin was originally based off a very old version of NovaCoin, which, down the line, caused some major issues that aren’t as easy to fix as you would think. The biggest problem is with the blockchain.
CoinPayments, you guys really are a bunch of busy bees lately, but I love your service more and more each and every day.
Recently, six coins have been added to CoinPayments after the poll vote on the BitcoinTalk forums. Shortly after, they also (sneakily) added Grain to their portfolio.
Not even a week later, they added another four coins :
– 42
– NobleCoin
– GameCoin
– MemoryCoin
This brings the total of supported coins on CoinPayments to no less than 45 different cryptocurrencies. Wow. So many!
It took a while until there was a working Grain wallet for OS X, but the wait is finally over, as there are now TWO working Grain OS X wallets!
Why two, you ask? Because the wallet has been released for different OS X versions! Download links can be found below :
– Grain OS X 10.7 Wallet Download
– Grain OS X 10.9 Wallet Download
Another step forward in the right direction for Grain! We can only hope the price will pick up soon so we can get above 100 satoshi!.
Either I am unbelievably ignorant at times (although I’m a very busy man too so you’ll forgive me), or this has gone by completely unnoticed, but CoinPayments has recently added support for Grain.
We have published a few articles about Grain already, as well as CoinPayments, and the fact they are now working together can only bring more positive news in the future.
As with any coin, CoinPayments does charge a small fee per Grain transaction, but they are very low and fair : 0.50% (standard rate for every coin) + 0.0002 Grain (transaction fee), requiring 20 confirmations to complete the payment.
We have discussed Grain a few times over the past few weeks, but the tale doesn’t end there. As many altcoins have seen an increase in value, so has Grain, because it’s value has tripled over the past 24 hours.
In case you haven’t heard of Grain yet, feel free to check out the article we wrote about it a while ago.
The reason for the increase of Grain’s price is because there simply aren’t that many people selling their Grain. Albeit Grain is only listed on the CoinedUp exchange for now, the only way the price has gone, is up.
Even during the weekend, important or critical updates will occur. In this case the wallet for the Cryptocurrency Grain has received an update, to version 1.4
The Grain client update is MANDATORY, so please upgrade as soon as possible.
We have included a list of changes below :
– The 12X maximum PoW block time has been changed to to 3X. This will decrease the PoW mining difficulty and make PoW mining more efficient, while preserving the PoS features.
The switchover point is set at block 130000, which will be in about 5-7 days
Albeit that title might be misleading , make no mistake about it : Grain is a Cryptocorrency, like there are plenty out there right now. But as it is gathering more & more attention, it’s about time we cover this coin, so let’s take a look at Grain.
The symbol of Grain is…well, that of grain, like you see out in the fields. You could say it’s not original and all, but it’s a symbol people all over the world can recognize, even if they have different names for it.