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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Altcoin Discussion => Topic started by: ripper234 on December 29, 2012, 07:09:42 AM



Title: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: ripper234 on December 29, 2012, 07:09:42 AM
... at the Israel meetup group.

The currencies I plan to discuss are Namecoin, Litecoin, PPCoin and Freicoin.
I might mention in one slide some of the failed experiments / scams / non-interesting forks (Solidcoin/RUCoin/GeistGeld/TerraCoin).
I might also include a slide about some related projects: Ripple & Open Transactions.

Any other important coins I'm missing?
Any important information about these coins that isn't included in their wiki pages (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Alternative_cryptocurrencies)?

Does anyone know interesting statistics on these currencies, including e.g. their current market cap?
You can add it to the wiki or just reply to this thread.


Title: Re: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: maaku on December 29, 2012, 07:12:42 AM
A more complete wiki entry for Freicoin:

http://p2pfoundation.net/Freicoin (http://p2pfoundation.net/Freicoin)

And our About page:

http://freico.in/about/ (http://freico.in/about/)


Title: Re: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: Rubberduckie on December 29, 2012, 07:23:49 AM
I thought RUcoin was just recently released?

Rucoin has been around for quite a while, I believe over 12 months


Title: Re: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: ripper234 on December 29, 2012, 07:27:50 AM
A more complete wiki entry for Freicoin:

http://p2pfoundation.net/Freicoin (http://p2pfoundation.net/Freicoin)

And our About page:

http://freico.in/about/ (http://freico.in/about/)

Thanks, the information will prove useful. Added to the wiki.


Title: Re: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: smoothie on December 29, 2012, 07:36:15 AM
Be sure to have it recorded.


Title: Re: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: ripper234 on December 29, 2012, 07:51:11 AM
Be sure to have it recorded.

I will if the facilities have recording equipment ... but it will be in Hebrew, so I'm not sure how good it would do you guys :)


Title: Re: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: johnvolta on December 29, 2012, 09:41:05 AM
Never knew, these many options available. Thanks for the info.


Title: Re: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: ripper234 on December 29, 2012, 01:02:18 PM
Never knew, these many options available. Thanks for the info.

Check this out for a few more experiments/ideas (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7500).


Title: Re: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: FuzzyBear on December 29, 2012, 02:43:53 PM
well u might want to mention a little on the merged mined coins with btc to? Devcoins, Ixcoins, but throw these in on the one slide and focus on the PPC, NMC, FRC and LTC :)

Best of luck with your talk

here's a few PPC discussions that might be useful:
PPCoin offline coinstake creation info - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=115608.0
Coin-age conservation out of proof-of-stake thread- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120097.0
PPCoin Aux Transactions Proposal - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113615.0
ppcoin transaction fees - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=114664.0
PPCoin mining generatiion math formula - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110528.0
PPcoin: POW difficulty reward relationship - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110039.0


Title: Re: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: DannyM on December 29, 2012, 02:51:45 PM
I think with the exception of groupcoin/devcoin, sacarlson's multicoin client got most of those forks you mentioned an easy path to making their genesis blocks and alt coin clients and chains and rules. His Beertokens and weeds experiments were interesting as well.


Title: Re: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: Transisto on December 29, 2012, 04:29:12 PM
Looking forward to this,...  It'll be refreshing to revisit the crypto currencies landscape from a more neutral standpoint.

Too often, talks focusing only on Bitcoin, sound like advertisements.

What's the expected length of your talk ?


Title: Re: I'm going to give a talk next month about Bitcoin forks
Post by: Meni Rosenfeld on December 29, 2012, 06:11:53 PM
Be sure to have it recorded.
I will if the facilities have recording equipment ... but it will be in Hebrew, so I'm not sure how good it would do you guys :)
About that - I think it might be worth it to do the talks in English, precisely for the recording to be more broadly usable.

What's the expected length of your talk ?
30 minutes.