demonstrating skill and intelligence
- litecoin 0.15.1 codebase
- pow algorithm: balloon (128kb/4rounds)
- retarget algorithm: dual_kgw3 (with 3hr timeout)
- block time: 4 minutes
- block maturity: 30 blocks
- block subsidy: 8.5 DEFT per block
- emission strategy: increment to full reward (block 5000) preventing instamining
- emission decay: block reward halves every 150,000 blocks
- emission simulation: included as 'deftreward.c'
- coin marketcap: maximum of 2.8mil DEFT
- coin premine: 250,000 DEFT