MintCoin is a new Proof of Work (POW) / Proof of Stake (POW) hybrid cryptocurrency coin. It's objective is to become the next innovative, secure, and energy efficient cryptocoin in the market. MintCoin is distributed using a fast POW distribution mechanism, and after 5 weeks, it becomes a pure POS coin. This makes the coin completely energy efficient in order to sustain itself, not having to depend on resource intensive mining rigs. MintCoin now runs on 100% Proof-of-Stake to secure the network. After the year 2016, stakers will receive a fixed 5% indefinitely as reward for securing the network. PoS variable interests: - 1st year: 20% - 2nd year: 15% - 3rd year: 10% - 4th and subsequent years: 5% MintCoin is often compared with its close counterpart - Peercoin and NXT
Pinkcoin is an x11 PoW/PoS cryptocurrency with a total coin supply of 380 million coins. The Proof-of-Work period lasted for the first 20,000 block that took 7 days to complete. There is a 1% stake interest per year. Pinkcoin has no pre-mine nor IPO though there is some indication of instamine for the first 186 blocks as noted by a code audit conducted.