Primecoin - 7 months later

With over 150 different cryptocurrencies out there, Primecoin appears to be one of the more stable and lasting coins. Our friends at Bitcoin Examiner made a nice infographic explaining the different aspects of Primecoin

Source: Bitcoin Examiner

CoinMKT adds Primecoin on October 20

Another Bitcoin and altcoin exchange will enable Primecoin trading!
"CoinMKT will be swapping out Novacoin for Primecoin in the evening on Oct 20th. All of you XPM traders out there gear up!
If you have Novacoin in the system, please withdraw it this week or we can send it manually back to your wallet."

  » Read the full topic at CoinMKT

Primecoin breaks 4th world record

Primecoin is not only useful as a cryptocurrency, but also contributes to science. Recently, the Primecoin Network has broken a 4th world record by computing a 13-Primes 94-digit Cunningham chain of 2nd kind.

» Read the full topic at Primecoiner

New Primecoin mining pools

Quite a few new mining pools for Primecoin have been introduced in the past few days:

http://www.beeeeer.org/ - a keep-it-simple pool, already overtaking ypool.net
http://rpool.net/ - a newchinese pool, seemingly without any english translation
And then there is still
http://ypool.net - the oldest Primecoin mining pool, which has been out there since the beginning

A calculator for estimating mining profits is also available:

http://anty.info/primecoin-calculator/

Physical Primecoins now for sale

It is now possible to buy a physical represenation of a Primecoin, in the form of a silver coin. They look really cool and impressive, and we look forward to seeing these in stores some day.

 » Read the full topic at Bitcointalk

Primecoin Breaks World Records (XPM)

Primecoin has Broken Three Major World Records in less than one month of Primecoin’s release. Primecoin is a cryptocurrency network released on July 7th, the first of its kind generating scientific computing values. “In March 2013, I realized that searching for prime chains could potentially be such an alternative proof-of-work system. With some effort a pure prime number based proof-of-work has been designed, providing both minting and security for cryptocurrency networks similar to hashcash type of proof-of-work. The project is named primecoin.” as quoted by Sunny King, the developer of Primecoin (XPM).

» Read the full article at CryptoCoinsNews

Primecoin client v0.1.2 released

A new version of the Primecoin client has been released. This release is not mandatory, and it can be downloaded through the Primecoin Github page.

» Read the full article at PPCointalk