Firo (cryptocurrency)
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Firo, formerly known as Zcoin, is a cryptocurrency aimed at using cryptography to provide better privacy for its users compared to other cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
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Denominations | |
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Code | FIRO |
Development | |
Original author(s) | Poramin Insom Reuben Yap[1] |
White paper | Enabling Untraceable Anonymous Payments in the Lelantus Protocol |
Initial release | 0.1[2] / 28 September 2016; 7 years ago (2016-09-28) |
Latest release | 0.14.13.2[3] / 16 February 2024; 2 months ago (2024-02-16)[3] |
Code repository | https://github.com/firoorg/firo/releases[4] |
Development status | Active |
Written in | JavaScript, C, Python, Go, C++[5] |
Developer(s) | Poramin Insom[6] Peter Shugalev Andrey Bezrukov Panu Suksumonsin Rustam Abrahamyan Sproxet Aram Jivanyan (Research)[7] |
Source model | Bitcoin codebase[8] |
Ledger | |
Timestamping scheme | Proof-of-work |
Hash function | Merkle Tree Proof[9] |
Block reward | 6.25 FIRO per block (next halving September 2024) |
Block time | 2.5 minutes[10] |
Website | |
Website | https://firo.org/[4] |
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