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A curated list of awesome Peercoin articles, libraries and resources
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Awesome Peercoin 

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- [Awesome Peercoin](#awesome-peercoin)

    - [Basics](#basics)

    - [Documentation](#documentation)

    - [Usefull articles and discussions](#usefull-articles-and-discussions)

    - [Programming](#programming)

- [Resources](#resources)

    - [Websites](#websites)

    - [Community](#community)

    - [Tutorials](#tutorials)

- [Peer Assets](#peerassets)

    - [Whitepaper](#whitepaper)

- [License](#license)



## Basics



* [Peercoin Whitepaper](https://peercoin.net/assets/paper/peercoin-paper.pdf) - Original whitepaper where Sunny King introduces Proof-of-Stake for the first time.

* [Building Spires in Sunny Kingdoms](https://medium.com/@Nagalim/building-spires-in-sunny-kingdoms-d126e214dd66) - An introduction to the history and philosophy of the Peercoin project.

* [How does the minting process work?](https://talk.peercoin.net/t/informal-discussion-how-does-the-minting-process-work/2189/56) - An informal and informative explanation of how Peercoins Proof-of-Stake minting process works.



## Buying Peercoin



* [btc-e](https://btc-e.com/) - Currently the biggest exchange selling Peercoins.

* [Peercoin price chart](https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/btce/ppcusd) - A live chart of the Peercoin/USD price on btc-e

* [Orderbook depth](https://cryptrader.com/charts/btce/ppc/usd) - Watch the orderbook depth on btc-e in realtime.



## Software

* [Peercoin wallet](https://peercoin.net/wallet) - The official Peercoin wallet.

* [Archlinux Peercoin packages](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=ammon&SeB=m) - AUR packages maintained by the lead Peercoin developer.

* [Peerbox](http://www.peerbox.me/) - Run a secure full Peercoin node on a Raspberry Pi for minting.



## Documentation



## Usefull articles and discussions



* [The Evolution of Blockchain Governance](https://github.com/slentzen/awesome-peercoin) - Making a better way to organize decentralized projects for the future.

* [Pay-2-Script-Hash](https://medium.com/@hrobeers/p2sh-bitcoin-script-puzzle-explained-26c8cb03ff90) - An explanation of how P2SH works in cryptocurrencies.



### Research articles



* [On Stake and Consensus](https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf) - Comparing PoS to PoW as a consensus algorithm.

* [Cryptocurrencies without Proof of Work](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.5694.pdf) - How PoS can help mitigate the security issues with PoS coins.

* [Challenges for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies](http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2015/papers-archived/6949a104.pdf) - An analysis of the security concerns for PoS only coins.

* [Majority is not enough: Bitcoin mining is vulnerable](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.0243v1.pdf) - Research shows that one can compromise Bitcoins network with less than 51% of the hashing power.



## Programming



* [PeerScript Labs](https://github.com/hrobeers/peerscript-labs) - A testing grounds for new or would-be peercoin developers. Little puzzles to solve and learn P2SH.

* [peercoin-rpc](https://github.com/peerchemist/peercoin_rpc) - Python library for rpc access to peercoin daemon. Minimalist and aimed at simple communication with ppcoind.

* [Cryptotik](https://github.com/peerchemist/cryptotik) - API library for standard exchanges.



## Peercoin Projects



* [PARS](https://talk.peercoin.net/t/ann-peercoin-advanced-relay-subnet-p2sh-update-call-for-minting-power/4003) - A subnetwork operating on mainnet using a soft-forked client that allows for large txns. Because DDOS of this subnetwork is far less rewarding than DDOS of the whole peercoin network.

* [PeerKeeper](https://talk.peercoin.net/t/ann-peerkeeper-backend-implementation-started/3913) - Thin wallet for minting in browser. Will be implemented with peerassets built in.

* [P2TH](http://peerassets.github.io/P2TH/) - Tagging a txn using a publicly known address allows for rapid parsing of blockchain.



# Resources



## Websites



* [Official website](https://peercoin.net/) - The official Peercoin website.

* [Peercoin chat](https://peercoin.chat) - The most active channel for daily talk about Peercoin

* [Peercoin talk](https://talk.peercoin.net/) - The official forum for Peercoin.

* [Peer4commit](https://peer4commit.com/) - Fund different Peercoin projects.



## Community



## Tutorials



* [PARS node setup](https://embeddedthought.com/2016/09/25/peercoin-advanced-relay-subnet-pars-node-setup/) - How to set up a Peercoin Advanced Relay Subnet node.



# PeerAssets



* [Whitepaper](https://peerassets.github.io/WhitePaper/) - The whitepaper describing how PeerAssets works

* [Benefits of PeerAssets](https://medium.com/@Nagalim/the-benefits-of-peerassets-77bad7693925) - Explaining the benefits of PeerAssets against competitors.

* [Mercator](http://137.74.40.81:4000/) - A PeerAssets block explorer.



## PeerAsset companies for investing in



* [Indicium](https://talk.peercoin.net/t/ann-indicium-series-a/4518) - An ETF that protects against cryptocurrency volatility.



# License



[![CC0](http://i.creativecommons.org/p/zero/1.0/88x31.png)](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)