Welcome to ChessCoin

About

Our coin started in 2016.
It uses the POS (proof of stake) mechanism to create blocks. The annual staking rate is 32%.
ChessCoin allows instant transaction processing with 64 second blocks, 2 hours minimum stake time and 32 blocks coin maturity.


		Download wallet

		News

		FAQ

		Tournaments - win prizes (15000 CHESS)

		BitcoinTalk

		Task list

Download the wallet software

Get the pre-compiled wallet binaries for your OS:

Windows: chesscoin-qt-windows.zip (12.5 MB)
iOS: ChessCoin-Qt.dmg (14.7 MB)
linux: chesscoin-qt-linux.tar.gz (5.6 MB)

or compile yourself:

source code (zip archive)

other tools:

paper wallet: Chesscoinpaperwallet.rar (1.7 MB)

Find the checksums for the files here.

News

2019 Oct 10: revert the hard fork
2018 Jan 5: we've now generated >60 million coins
2018 Jan 5: our chess tournaments 3+4 will take place on Jan 13+14; read more here
2017 Dec 25: tournaments 3+4 coming soon; roadmap updated; poll about dev situation; read more here
2017 Dec 25: our first ever held tournament series was a success, read the summary
2017 Dec 13: please vote for the dates of our chess tournament AND review the rules
2017 Dec 12/13: we had a forking situation and a ChessCoin whale woke up :-) see here
2017 Dec 11: we have now 15k CHESS as prize for the tournament, see here
2017 Dec 11: announcement of chess tournament + the new website
2017 Dec 10: start the task list

How to get your wallet started?

1. Download the wallet software from above.
2. Copy the chesscoin.conf file into the correct directory, e.g.

Windows: C:\Users\*.*\AppData\Roaming\ChessCoin
Linux: /home/yourOwnUserHere/.chesscoin/

3. and then start your wallet.

4. hint: secure your wallet with a password
5. backup: now is also a good time to put the wallet on a USB stick (to do that close the wallet and copy the wallet.dat file)
6. Feel free to collect your first ChessCoins from a faucet
7. If you like you can also use a bootstrap:
7a. close your wallet
7b. download the current bootstrap files from here.
(you can find the current version in the signature of user: ZzzzeyeZzzz)
7c. copy the bootstrap files into: C:\Users\*.*\AppData\Roaming\ChessCoin (Linux: /home/yourOwnUserHere/.chesscoin/ )
7d. start your wallet again

Join our tournaments - with prizes (15000 CHESS)

Take part in our first chess tournament event!

Dec 23, 10:00 AM - 12:00 UTC
Dec 24, 15:00 - 17:00 UTC

We play on the lichess site:

Join our group first: TCCT (The ChessCoin team)
This chess site has e.g. 113k Blitz players this week (incl. GMs, LMs, FMs, IMs, ...)
Here is a howto to familiarize yourself on the chess site

The prize money are your donations that are sent to this address, until December 22: CUxNLaWyjnXHMF3PfLoJXvfFXXzdcyJfT1

We've so far 15k CHESS as prizes :-) see here

Sponsors will be listed here for their kind donations. Thank you!

Review the rules here please.
Keep in mind:
what I wrote above is not the Holy Grail, and requires your feedback. We might iron out things more (e.g. dates/times; who gets how much prize, ...).
Since it's our first tourney we'll make our experience and adjust - work in progress :-)

Where can I find block explorer?

Where can I find a faucet?

Crypto4free (every hour 0.125 CHESS)
Cryptoguru

On which exchanges is ChessCoin listed?

Cryptopia
YoBit
NovaExchange (will close 2018-03-31)

Where is the old website?

See here a copy from 2017 May.

Someone forgot to renew it and it got in other people's hands :-(
That is why now this website is hosted here on github, because:

it won't ever disappear again (needs no yearly renewal, ...)
People see what code is run (since this site's code is hosted on github)
You can just start this all locally, no need to go online: download this and open the index.html in your browser
Everyone can help update it (by submitting a pull request here)
No downtimes (since github is a global player)

Welcome to ChessCoin!