Non-Bitcoin solutions such as alternate block chains or methods of storing and exchanging value
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Which crypto-currency has the most even distribution of wealth? [closed]
Bitcoin, Ripple, PPCoin, Freicoin and most other cryptocurrencies have a significant portion of the currency in the hands of early adopters or a central group charged with 'distributing' the currency. ...
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What are the complete alternatives to bitcoins and where are the exchanges for that? [duplicate]
I know terra coins, LTC, what else?
Do they have exchanges too?
If so, what's the graphs and where to trade?
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What's the alternative to bitcoins that can be mined by beginner?
I know litecoin can be mined by average joe.
What about if I have tons of CPU and a few have good GPU.
Should I used the CPU to mine namecoin and the GPU to mine litecoin? Or perhaps some other ...
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List of Bitcoin forks or spinoffs [duplicate]
I've just heard about another digital currency called Litecoin, which I believe to be based on Bitcoin, are there any more alternatives to Bitcoin & Litecoin?
Any one got a list?
A reason why ...
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following coins between blockchains
Question: is it possible to further obfuscate ownership/origin of bitcoins by trading it for another cryptocurrency at an exchange? (as it is easier to do this for large amounts than it is with cash)
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How does Chaum style e-cash work? (all the Wiki links are broken)
I'm trying to learn how Chaum-style ecash worked specifically how:
"the issuer does a blind signature on a serial number"
I tried looking up on Wikipedia but the page is pretty light on the ...
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Which alternative currencies might experience a sharp rise in popularity like bitcoin recently did? [closed]
Simple question for newbies. Which other alternative currencies (crypto and others) are possible candidates for a surge in popularity?
Is there any reason that bitcoin will always dominate the alt ...
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A Bitcoin alternative with non decreasing reward
Understanding the motivations for the 21 million BC limit and halving reward rate, I still think it dis-proportionally rewards early adopters. My ideal system would be one where the mining reward is a ...
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Can there be Bitcoin-like network that also works as whatever@home?
There are Bitcoin-like network that performs calculations that are not locally useful, but interesting for peers.
There are {SETI,folding,...}@home networks that calculates something that is ...
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Litecoin difficulty and reward
How can I know difficulty value and reward for Litecoin network ?
I'm looking for website such as
http://blockexplorer.com/q/bcperblock
http://blockexplorer.com/q/getdifficulty
to get ...
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What keeps a dominant Bitcoin client vendor with the majority of the market share from unilaterally changing the protocol?
I've been asking this in the comments, but I'll be more direct.
If a third-party Bitcoin client, say "iBitcoin" (for example), becomes the dominant client by acquiring most of the market share, what ...
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What would be the technical, and wider, implications of a cryptocurrency that used proof-of-disk-space?
ShelbyMooreIII is promoting AnonyMint and/or AnonyCash as a concept* cryptocurrency based on a disk-space intensive algorithm. Some details are given here: http://anonymint.org/#Proof-of-Work_Designs
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How is 'profitability' calculated on Coinotron?
On the Coinotron, multi-currency pool website, there is a metric posted at the top-right of each page that displays how "profitable" it is to mine a specific currency.
How does Coinotron derive this ...
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Will bitcoins be devalued by competing digital currencies? [closed]
Bitcoin is becoming more recognizable and trusted. But as it's popularity increases, the supply isn't going to change significantly because the supply is fixed to the internal mining algorithm. This ...
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1answer
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What ultimately happens to mining if blocks contain mostly non-Bitcoin data?
I'm trying to understand what can happen if
A block consists entirely of 3rd party (xCoin) data like Namecoin
There are no Tx fees to collect since they are on alternate chains.
Assume that the ...
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Why do we need alternatives to Bitcoin?
I don't understand why people need to create alternatives to Bitcoin such as litecoin. Why were these created? What's the point? You can't answer those questions using the same arguments for why ...
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What existing businesses or products does Bitcoin compete with?
I'm trying to understand who sees Bitcoin as competition to their main product. For example, I've heard that Bitcoin competes with:
Swiss numbered bank accounts
Deflationary PMs (precious metals)
...
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How to experience the thrill of mining?
Bitcoins are hard to mine now. I've always wanted to actually earn them, but never actually gotten much of anything. I want to create my own blockchain, separate from any other networks, so that ...
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1answer
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Are there studies about a Bitcoin-like economy with inflation?
Assume, we create an alternative cryptocurrency ("InflationCoin") based on the bitcoin software with one change to the protocol:
The Block reward is constant, e.g. 50 InflationCoin
Technically ...
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What are colored coins?
What exactly are colored coins? I've tried understanding, but I don't quite get it yet . . . Do any examples exist?
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Will an approved Bitcoin-like system replace Bitcoin?
What is the chance of another Bitcoin-like currency system to replace Bitcoin? Will Bitcoin still coexist with such systems? Will it affect then-current Bitcoin exchange rate?
By Bitcoin-like, I ...
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Alternative clients and the Bitcoin API
Which of the alternative clients support any/some/all of the standard API calls? I am looking for a possible alternative client to replace Bitcoind on my server.
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Is it possible for a decentralized currency to have untraceable transactions?
I have been reading a bit about Bitcoin recently and am fascinated with the project and think it has great potential.
However, one thing I think it needs in order to gain mass popularity is to make ...
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Zero to Bitcoin in sixty seconds - how to set up a Bitcoin client in case you need it fast?
Lets say I have a bitcoind instance running on a server with proper wallet.dat backups created regularly. The server crashes, blockchain data becomes corrupted or what have you, and I need to set up a ...
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What is the key difference between the Proof of Activity proposal and Proof of Stake?
coblee (Litecoin creator) suggested a new Proof of Activity method, to complement Proof of Work, instead of using Proof of Stake (oh my!)
Can someone provide a tl;dr of what is the key problem in PoS ...
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What is the “best” BitCoin alternative? Especially from the pov of mining [closed]
Namecoin, Devcoin, Litecoin, Liquidcoin, Solidcoin, I0coin, Ixcoin... Which of them is the best alternative to BitCoin, especially from a fledgling miner's pov (ie. I'd like to mine some coins, but ...
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Is Proof of Stake a hard-fork?
Proof of Stake is a proposed modification to the Bitcoin protocol.
maaku claimed that it doesn't require a hard fork / alt chain.
Is this true?
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Alternative incentives for miners
Currently the incentives for miners are the block-awards and transaction fees. Suppose I want to create a Bitcoin-like hash-chain for other purposes than storing coins (for example: storing messages), ...
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1answer
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Does merged mining require clients to download both blockchains?
Suppose I want to start an AltCoin, and set it up for merged mining with Bitcoin. Will it require the AltCoin end-users to also download the Bitcoin blockchain to verify the hashes embedded in the ...
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2answers
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What is TimeKoin?
I just found this (on BitcoinTalk). TimeKoin seems to be an attempt at a cryptocurrency. There is a whitepaper and an about page, and I've skimmed through them, but I haven't been able to answer these ...
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1answer
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How can people in Indonesia use Bitcoins?
Dwolla does not accept me.
So what's the alternative?
How can I for example, withdraw money to rupiah or dollar account in US.
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The context of FBI involvement with Bitcoin
A number of articles appeared recently linking to a leaked document about Bitcoin written by the FBI. Here's one.
What involvement or interest has the FBI had with other alternative currencies, such ...
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1answer
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What client to use for an alternative special purpose blockchain?
Lets say one wanted to create a blockchain for the purposes of providing a scalable back-end for accounting for the trade of some arbitrary unit between people. It would not be a tradeable currency.
...
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1answer
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What is the story behind the attack on Coiledcoin?
A couple months ago I came across the news about Eligius pool being used to destroy an AltCoin called Coiledcoin. As I understand the miners of the pool did not know their hashing power was used in ...
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It is possible to build a P2P system to trade Bitcoins?
It is possible to build a peer-to-peer (similar to BitTorrent) system to trade Bitcoins?
Well, the discussion pointed in the 1st answer is very similar to what I have in mind. But, I have some ...
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1answer
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What is fairCash?
There may exist a potential Bitcoin rival, fairCash. The founder mentioned this briefly at the Mobile World Congress in a Q&A session with Google. There a little resources on the internet about ...
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1answer
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How can I identify the coin type from its address?
I know Bitcoin addresses start with 1, and it seems that testnet addresses start with m or n, and Namecoin addresses start with N, but is there a more complete list that would allow me to identify the ...
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Can I CPU mine others coins to win Bitcoins?
I have a useless Nvidia, until now, unconfigurable to mine (7300)
So, if I mine just with CPU, can I get more coins mining others coins like NMC,LQC,LTC,SC, or whatever, and trading after for BTCs?
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Should fractional reserve banking be prohibited through the bitcoin protocol or otherwise, and how could such a change be implemented?
There's a massive macroeconomic debate between Keynesians, who want central banks to control the money supply, and Austrians who want no central banks doing any such thing--or at least competing ...
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Is “Dacoinminster's Second Bitcoin Whitepaper” logically/economically consistent?
Dacoinmister's "The Second Bitcoin Whitepaper" is a new proposal to create another p2p network over Bitcoin (called MasterCoin), that will fix some of Bitcoin's drawbacks.
Are there any logical ...
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Alternative currencies eWallets
Are there any online wallet services that offer services for alternative cryptocoins, such as Namecoins, Litecoins, etc?
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Can a competing cryptocurrency make Bitcoin obsolete?
If a new cryptocurrency is created, with some unknown property that Bitcoin does not have, can Bitcoin be adapted to include this property, or will Bitcoin become obsolete?
(I believe I know the ...
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Bitcoin over HTTP?
Are there any implementations of a Bitcoin client that would run over HTTP, allowing one to communicate by, for example, sending raw message bytes as a POST?
Edit:
I'm not looking for ways to control ...
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2answers
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How exactly is Rucoin different than Bitcoin?
Rucoin is a "Russian Bitcoin clone" (see announcement thread).
Besides the fact the website is in Russian, what other characteristics does this coin have?
Is it just a 1-to-1 Bitcoin clone? Is ...
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What Bitcoin-esque alternatives are there?
I'm seeing lots of bitcoin-esque alternatives mentioned here. What alternatives exist and how do they differ from Bitcoins?
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Trading between different cryptocoins
Is there a website that allows one to trade multiple different cryptocoins (Bitcoins, Namecoins, SolidCoins, RuCoins, LiteCoins, etc) all in one place?
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Different ways to encode Bitcoin Address
What are the different ways to encode a Bitcoin Address (both private and public) and how are they calculated? I've heard of things like firstbits, mini private key format, and I`d like to know how ...
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1answer
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Speed of operations in the Bitcoin network
Did anyone measure how fast transactions spread through the Bitcoin network? For example, how long does it take for a newly generated block to be propagated to most active clients?
Mainly asking this ...
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Bitcoin alternative designed for NVIDIA
Currently the best graphics cards to mine Bitcoins are all AMDs. What should be changed in the Bitcoin protocol to make the alternative version of Bitcoins better mined by NVIDIA graphics cards? Could ...
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Has anyone attempted to make a working voting system using a bitcoin based system?
It occurred to me the other day that the difficult problem of electronic voting could possibly be solved quite nicely using a bitcoin system. I believe it's transparent enough to be trusted. I found a ...
