DigiShield

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DigiShield

Activated in February 2014, this hard fork allowed for the DigiByte blockchain to protect against multi-pools that mine large numbers of DigiByte at a low difficulty. It achieves this protection by recalculating block difficulty between each block, allowing for a faster correction when a multi-pool begins or ceases contributing to DigiByte, rather than recalculating once every fortnight (2 weeks) as is the case with Bitcoin.

Since inception, DigiShield has been added into over 25 other cryptocurrency blockchains such as BitcoinCash, ZCash, Dogecoin, Startcoin, AuroraCoin, BitcoinGold, BitTokens, CasinoCoin, CreativeCoin, Granite, Huncoin, Monacoin, Mooncoin, Nautiluscoin, Quatloo, SakuraCoin, Scorecoin, SmartCoin, StartCoin, SuperiorCoin, And Ubiq, with the help of the DigiByte Core team.


MultiAlgo

Qubit (GPU/CPU hybrid), SHA256 (ASIC), Script (ASIC), Skien (GPU), Groestl (GPU).

Activated in September 2014 from Myriadcoin source code, this hard fork allowed for multi-algorithm mining. Its purpose was to create a number of different proof of work (PoW) mining methods to accommodate the different types of mining capabilities that exist, such as dedicated ASIC mining, GPU and CPU mining. This allows for a larger number of people to access DigiByte mining pools and therefore creates a more decentralized blockchain with the coins reaching groups who were unable to mine the coin on its original single-algorithm (Scrypt) fork.


MultiShield

Activated in December 2014, this hard fork worked to activate DigiShield across the new MultiAlgo platform and to accomplish the same goals on all five mining pools.