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Please choose your favorite Alt-Coin (you can pick only one).  My prior list had some errors and I received PMs it was biased towards the one listed earlier, so now I have re-done the list in alphabetical order.  I tried to be thorough, let me know if I missed one you for which you wish to cast a vote. Late entries will be out of order at the end of the list.  I am only listing coins which have already been launched (hence, no eMunie).

After a couple weeks, I will relaunch a new poll listing the top 5 contenders based on which ones garner the most votes.

Please add Cloudcoin

Thanks for issuing another poll with more coins to choose from.

No problem, I know the prior poll did not have nearly enough alt-coins listed!

Just goes to show you how stupid people are here, look at all that shit..... dont you people have anything better to do.....

I went to make a poll, then my OCD forced me to try and be complete.  The list is a bit crazy.

I agree. People here are pretty stupid to create polls such as this and then there are the stupider people who comment saying how stupid this is. Oh wait ...

You don't think maybe the stupid part is there are over 80 alt-coins currency in circulation?

bump

Stickied for a day

Why is having 80 alt-coins "stupid"? May be some of them are stupid ideas (hint: they are) but the idea of having more alt-coins isn't stupid. If an idea is stupid, it should die a natural death. The only way to go forward is to experiment with different things. You'll always have innovations as in the case of LTC, PPC, NMC and more recently Primecoin. Who knows which one will end up with the best features? May be none, or may be we need ideas from them all, but when there's innovation taking place, there's got to be more losers than winners. No, having so many alt-coins isn't necessarily stupid (although, again, yes, there are stupid alt-coins all over the place)

Well, my little side project will be to find the most popular coins and give a detailed write-up on them for anyone new to alt-coins.  The current # of choices is overwhelming.

wow... it never seemed like so much till you see them all in order. thanks for doing this, cast my vote!

and thanks mod for the sticky, the results from this should prove very interesting, perhaps even somewhat detrimental.

Honestly, I wanted to pick a few. ;D It'll be interesting to see the results in the end. You can already see some particularly favored.

Has to be the longest list of poll options I have seen!

It should be pretty harmless, I'm fairly curious to see how it pans out. Of course some of the older coins have an already established userbase, so they should have a higher vote rate, but we will see how it all turns out.

I vote Quarkcoin


PS have lots for sale  ;D

Holy crap!
I remember when there only was Bitcoin when I discovered all this, and then 2 months after Litecoin came, and I saw how easy it was to mine it, made me a shitton of coins :)

This is a great poll. Good job with that. I am looking forward to see the results.

never going to get this lot complete, losing battle.

errm ....

Hobo Nickel HBN ??
GIL ??


ooh noo I'm not getting sucked into this OCD madness.

Seems like this poll has become rigged already... Novacoin, perhaps the largest premine scam coin of them all, has 28 votes?

honestly the fact that it's still hosted on btc-e a year later just reeks of something. oh well.. what do you expect.

Looks like some coins are being voted on by bought accounts (which isn't against TOS)

These polls are useless, it's completely rigged before it even starts.

why? Just look at the market price if you wanna see an ordering of "value".

To be semantic, not market price, but market cap.

Worldcoin i like mainly because i was online when it launched, i fired it up and pointed one card at it, made ~ $150 one night of mining with one card. Sure was fun to be an early adopter of a good coin! i even kept a small pile of wdc in case the price went up more but sadly like all coins it tanked in price when it hit the exchanges.

i voted for DGC though, like the logo better the WDC.

honestly, i can't take this poll seriously. I mean you got Kujmandos and his 27 sockpuppets voting for CloudCoin. i think he's the only one who mines it.

As always with these kind of polls, most people don't vote, it's mainly coin groupies.

Not liking the poll because your coin is not winning is not a reason to say it is invalid.  Sour grapes.  I am finding the poll results quite interesting.  For one, I expected Litecoin to have a significant lead on all the other coins which it does not. 

Look like XPM the most popular one. ;)

join CMC！

CMC +1

Ripple is not an altcoin. Not even close.  

but you gotta admit Primecoin is the beesknees for these mindless sheep

CosmosCoin is the best one.

Lots of love for Digital Coin!  :)

In my opinion, LTC remains the biggest and most stable, there are 80 fucked up alt-coins of which 79 are pump and dump to make 200$ and jump to a "new" coin...

I go with LTC if it's on there.  For the other coins: I'm just not that into you.

Voted NMC.

I voted for Cloudcoin. Thank you for making this poll. It is great

Yup, Litecoin here as well.

I fucking love competing currencies :D

A vote for  FRK is a vote for the future!

It like a horse race - with Litecoin now in the lead, but Primecoin only a little behind.  Digicoin seems to be a solid 3rd place.

why no cloudcoin? if it gets exchanges it will grow quickly

It seems like the big four are currently (in order of votes):
1 Litecoin
2 Primecoin
3 Digicoin
4 Novacoin

Then there are those deserving of honorable mention (in order of votes):
5 Cosmoscoin
6 YACoin
7 Goldcoin
8 PPCoin
9 Feathercoin
10 Quarkcoin &  Namecoin (tied)

I am surprised by these results so far.  First, I never even heard of Digicoin before this vote and it #3 on the list!  I'll need to look into it.  Also, Primecoin is really close to Litecoin in terms of popularity being a relatively new coin.  It also has a lot of threads for it in this forum (I myself was getting confused and made an aggregate thread for the coin at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264115.0

Other new coins that are surprisingly high on the list are Cosmocoin, Goldcoin and Quarkcoin.  

I added 15 coins I had missed and removed one (Middlecoin, not a coin - actually a mining pool).

I know they are late additions, but you can change your vote!

I'm a complete noob at understanding how these coins work, but apparently the pluses of primecoin is that it's actually computing scientific equations etc. which is definitely useful to society and then there's digital coin which apparently does transactions a lot faster, I'd need to do more research to double check that kind of thing though but that's what I've gathered so far, most of the coins out there are meant to be just copy and paste jobs.

Well, Primecoin is having a lot of "momentum" lately. And litecoin is pretty established.
But as of Digicoin... that is indeed a surprise  :)

Thanks for noticing Goldcoin.

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We're hard at work to make it the very best coin possible! Everyone please remember to update your clients before Friday.

We didn't buy our votes.. unlike certain coins that shall remain unnamed for the moment.

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I get the feeling this is aimed at DGC. Normally I just try to ignore FUD, but for whatever reason I really just don't feel like letting this slide today.

A few things:

• DGC has the 10th largest market cap (http://coinmarketcap.com/) (coin price x number of coins in circulation) of any cryptocurrency, and the second largest market cap of any coin released in the last three months. By the way, it's about 5 times that of goldcoin's. Additionally, it has consistently been in the top handful of coins on cryptsy in terms of trade volume in BTC/day every day for at least the last month.
• DGC has an extremely active community, with one of the most active IRC channels, behind only #bitcoin and #litecoin (btw, join us at #digitalcoin on irc.freenode.net---webchat link is in my signature), as well as the longest announcement thread of any alt-coin in recent memory.
• DGC has a currently ongoing fundraiser where over 75,000 DGC (~2000 USD) has been raised to assist with development costs from over 30 unique users. This is particularly significant as DGC was one of the fairest coin launches in recent memory with no "premine" or "instamine", and no users were able to amass huge amounts of DGC for free by being an "ultra-early-adopter". All of those donations were hard-earned or bought by the dgc community and given to the development team because they believe so strongly in DGC's future.
• DGC has one of the most active development teams of any altcoin. Currently in development are a fiat exchange/payment gateway as well as a "bank" (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=238882.0) which will issue DGC options. The DGC (and ARG) exchange is slated to be released within the few weeks, and the bank following shortly after.
• The most recent DGC "pump and dump" was anything but. Rather, a number of users in various exchange trollboxes sought to perpetuate a rumor that btc-e was adding DGC when they removed CNC, and this rumor caught on. This led to panic buying and then a resulting market correction back down to DGC's long term support level of ~.0003 dgc/btc. Since reaching this level, dgc has shown no indication that it is going to break it. By the way, no one involved with the development of DGC had anything do do with these rumors and did not even acknowledge them when they were ongoing

Basically, what I'm saying is, you've suggested that there's no reason anyone would think DGC is an up-and-coming cryptocurrency enough to vote for it in this meaningless poll unless they were paid to do so. This could not be farther from the truth. Shit, we (as a community) haven't even actively been promoting this poll other than a couple folks in IRC mentioning it a time or two and one post in the digitalcoin "ANN" thread. Your statements illustrate a clear ignorance of reality and an unwillingness to research your claims before you make them.

Oh, and lol at your logic that "because GLD is going up now, it will never stop going up!" I suppose the name "goldcoin" is fitting in this regard.

Hey man, you seem to have conveniently forgotten the other half of your GLD chart. Allow me to inform everyone else what you neglected to mention.

https://i.imgur.com/D0VgrTO.png?1

Nice rise but nothing out of the ordinary.

Also, you're labelling DGC as a pump and dump? Are you aware of how paper thin the asks are on cryptsy? it takes all of 5 BTC to make the price raise 300%, The low volume on cryptsy makes it a terrible place to orchestrate such things. What you see there are investors buying up the price while multipool jumps on the %profitability/BTC then dumps it right back down. I was in fact one of those investors, and I've yet to dump what I've bought. Kinda bummed on that but I believe I'll see a return on my investment eventually.

For a pump and dump to be successful it has to span more than several days to build up buy volume, not spike up, plateau, then fall right back down. You're only losing money to fees that way.

The only thing that really stinks about this poll is how Novacoin is in the top four. Oldest scamcoin in history, I'm sure Balthazar is enjoying life with his horde of premined coins, especially since it mints maybe ~1300 coins a day. Can't believe that garbage is still on btc-e..

There seems to be a lot of pressure building up within the altcoin world, maybe the strain of having too many is finally making a point? Fight, fight for your coin-god!  ::)

Well Litecoin is winning good, DigitalCoin and PrimeCoin are doing well, odd I've barely even hear of them.

you should buy YAC people, thank me in mid-August ;)

add eaglecoin, plz.

1 month ago the comments made about Primecoin today would have been made about Goldcoin.  Of course, one big thing to remember: Goldcoin did so poorly against BTC that it was converted to LTC trading on Cryptsy.  This means Goldcoin is in the minor league while Primecoin is still in the majors.  1 BTC = ~35 LTC = ~154 XPM = ~55,000 GLD.

In the words of the immortal Stan Lee: 'nuff said.

Alright, left this stickied a few days longer than I had intended to, but no harm done. I will however be unstickying it now, there are over 500 votes at the moment, which should be a large enough sample size to get somewhat accurate information. You are free to continue on with regular conversation about the poll or whatever, and use a daily bump to keep the thread in the public if you wish, just letting you know that in order for my "Sticky anything that could be considered important, interesting, or useful" policy to work, I have to make sure that I take down things that have been stickied after a while, or eventually the entire front page will end up stickied.

No problem, thank you for keeping it up long enough to get a fairly accurate read on the state of things.  I found it very informative.

good stuff! I have high hopes for primecoin, as its development, like people have already said, uses all that extra energy ( did you know mining in the u.s. costs us 80+k in electricity a DAY? That's only going to get higher) to work.  The most intriguing thing I found was concerning a computational program from Stanford to help find cures to some diseases.  The other half is to find longgggg prime numbers, which I guess is a big thing in the math world??;) were talking world record, million digit long primes. I guess primecoin has already slashed a world record for long primes.   It beats me as child with the Guinness bookofworld records out, trying to stand on one foot to beat the record, which was days long. :)

But seriously, it's the first coin that isn't being mindless about all that expendable energy, and I for one applaud that.

I think that attracts a lot of people to bitcoin.  Also the fact that prime numbers are a mathematical resource for cryptography has an obvious allure to crypto currency enthusiasts.  I believe primecoin though will remain a very volatile currency though for the near future.

Oh definitely.  I'm not expecting any sort of return on investment from this coin, not for a while.  Volatility is part of the turf, especially with new coins, but I see it as a cryptocurrency breakthrough, which I hope moves other people who are considering unloading more cutandpaste coins to cease and desist.  Unless there's something new or unique about the coin, I'm not interested. But that's me.  I'm most intrigued by how crypto currencies in general will change the world. ( enter evil laughter here ) :)

CAP here.

Cryptogenicbullion is impressive and still very cheap to get on cryptsy!  :o

Ask me in 1 month when we have 100x more coins.

The rate with which new coins are created are amazing

It slows down a bit the a lot get released..

Added four new coins today...

bump  :-\

I really got to post a write-up on the most popular coins voted on for newcomers to check out.  I'll run a new poll I'm a couple months.  My prediction is once a GPU miner comes on the scene, primecoin will surpass litecoin in popularity.

DGC   ;D ;D ;D

CAP all the way  ;)

Which one is cap?

CGB  ;D

/slap

CAP is bottlecaps.

Wow thats a hugee list. I preferr Lite and Prime.

it seems like lite on the decline.  if they come out with a gpu miner for primecoin, i think many lite miners will switch over.

You guys might want to promote your favorite coins here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=273750.msg2934428#msg2934428 New exchange is launching soon, looking for coins to add at launch.

Been there, done that.

DGC! 8)

Unbelievable - not a single vote for VaginaCoin?!  :)

Only a matter of time still penis coin comes along

soon: randomwordCoin
Untill we use up all words in exsistence..

At that point the script kiddies will just bang their fists against the keyboard and add -coin to whatever jumble comes out.

futuristic: randomletters-Coin

Won't be too long before the poll question IS the first page here.

extreme coin came out today along with a few others I'm sure.

How many of these coins though are basically dead?  How many will be dead in a year?  I think the majority.

These with 0 votes most likely.

There are so many Alt-Coins!!!!!

And a couple more added every day!

SXC

Nova and lite

xpm - 99 votes

http://www.primecoiner.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/whatisprimecoin22.png

Way too many nonsense coins but what can you do..

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Typical-Balthazar-response.jpg

He's just jelaous of the smart Professor Balthazar:
http://www.croatianhistory.net/gif/art/baltazar1.gif

LITECOIN ;D

DIGITALCOIN  ;D

Wonder how long LTC will remain # 2

Only a few votes above XPM.

Irinocally, Litecoin is one of the least innovative all coins out there.  It only popular since it was one of the earliest altcoins to have a fair launch. 

Yup. It's a clone of a dead coin. It has almost non exsistant services too..

I vote Extremecoin.

Can you add it to the poll please.

Thanks.

most altcoins are scrypt clones.
I'd say its pretty innovative.

never heard of it - can you give me a link to its forum thread?

Tenebrix was the first coin to use the scrypt algorithm, not litecoin.

Yeah litecoin is a clone.

Anoncoin and LTC

Crap, I tried to add more but apparently 126 entries is the poll limit;(

Which just confirms that we have too many coins.

SO MANY coins indeed

Just remove items with zero votes.


For example... This network is dead for more than 2 years, no peers here.

now too many coins is this good or bad I believe its not good for this market

Both.

This!
Remove the useless crap from this list, it's too big anyways.
Coins that are either dead or have no votes.

I went with cryptogenic bullion, but i have to admit, that's just because its the first altcoin i've ever considered.

Primecoin seems to be catching up with litecoin.

NovaCoin FTW  8)

Scrypt - Proof of Stake

'Nuf Said

Seems to be missing the newly minted ShitCoin .....

Seems to be missing the newly launch blakecoin.

Forgot the kimcoin as well  8)
Edit Viral Client figures

gold presses latinum lol i love it as a trekkie even though i mine LTC still :P

You missed Blazecoin - BLZ

Fucking Joke, same poll every 6 months.

No Monero how hilarious poll is for n00b tards to lose money on.

ByteCoin included HAHAHAHAHA...

Scammers

rise the DEAD shall they!

fk yah BLZ!

volunteer fireman coin done did well!

Doesn't include my favorite altcoin so I will choose porncoin lol

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange?market=BLZ_LTC

BLZ out of retirement this month.