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Title: Any guide on how to create a alternate currency to bitcoin Post by: PrintCoins on May 15, 2013, 02:04:10 PM There has been a few alternate currencies created so far using the bitcoin protocol. Are there any guides geared toward programmers as to how to create one?
Title: Re: Any guide on how to create a alternate currency to bitcoin Post by: BitcoinBarrel on May 15, 2013, 02:05:15 PM Well before you get started you have to be an anonymous hacker.
Title: Re: Any guide on how to create a alternate currency to bitcoin Post by: jackjack on May 15, 2013, 03:30:34 PM Well before you get started you have to be an anonymous hacker. Tell me you're kidding98% of Bitcoin copycats are created by people who just modified 4 lines of code Title: Re: Any guide on how to create a alternate currency to bitcoin Post by: justusranvier on May 15, 2013, 03:34:07 PM Just looking at how popular it's become to do it, I've been strongly tempted to create my own
Title: Re: Any guide on how to create a alternate currency to bitcoin Post by: Welsh on May 15, 2013, 03:34:29 PM To create a "alternate" currency, what do you mean?
Actually CREATE a currency. Or, Just edit some lines of code and claim it as your own? Anyway, currencies are normally created by teams, or very dedicated people. Not just people who would like to create a currency let the price build up and then cash out, it's not that simple. Title: Re: Any guide on how to create a alternate currency to bitcoin Post by: jackjack on May 15, 2013, 04:41:54 PM it's not that simple. Actually, it isTitle: Re: Any guide on how to create a alternate currency to bitcoin Post by: Adamlm on May 15, 2013, 04:43:51 PM In some cases you don't even need to change anything, just mine the new genesis block and start a new altchain (like Bytecoin)
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