(you can use your computer to generate this money)
Ixcoin is a digital currency created in 2011 by Thomas Nasakioto based on Bitcoin. It is also the name of the open source software designed in order to use this currency.
Ixcoin is a direct fork of Bitcoin with approximately twice the inflation rate, starting on a new blockchain. The goals is for Ixcoin to mirror Bitcoin's code exactly apart from the inflation rate difference.
Bitcoin is an implementation of a concept called crypto-currency, which was first described in 1998 by Wei Dai on the cypherpunks mailing list. Building upon the notion that money is any object, or any sort of record, accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context, Bitcoin is designed around the idea of using cryptography to control the creation and transfer of money, rather than relying on central authorities. Windows (exe) 5.7 MB
Linux 10.4 MB
Mac OS X (coming soon)
Why
- Ixcoin starts on a new blockchain.
- Ixcoin will reach its 21 million IXC maturity in 2015, ~18 years before Bitcoin does.
- Ixcoins are sent easily through the Internet, without trusting middlemen.
Transactions are irreversible by design. - Be safe from instability caused by fractional reserve banking and central banks. The limited inflation of the Ixcoin system's money supply is distributed evenly (by CPU power) throughout the network, not monopolized by banks.
What can you do with it now? From this page "The following is a list of sites that currently accept Ixcoin", there are only about 3-4 websites accepting Ixcoin and most are useless.