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Bitcoin => Press => Topic started by: Mike Hearn on January 07, 2014, 12:34:23 PM



Title: [2014-01-07] The Guardian: Bitcoin me, how to make your own digital currency
Post by: Mike Hearn on January 07, 2014, 12:34:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/07/bitcoin-me-how-to-make-your-own-digital-currency

An article about alt coins, Matt's coingen.io site and I'm quoted talking about how alt coins demonstrate the democratic nature of cryptocurrencies. The journalist (Alex Hern) uses coingen to make his own coin and mines on it a bit.

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Move over Dogecoin: the Herncoin is here. But what can making your own currency teach you about the world of bitcoin?




Title: Re: [2014-01-07] The Guardian: Bitcoin me, how to make your own digital currency
Post by: Lethn on January 07, 2014, 04:32:49 PM
dear god I am so tempted to make one now, but I can't code that well at all so I'd just fuck it up.


Title: Re: [2014-01-07] The Guardian: Bitcoin me, how to make your own digital currency
Post by: TraderTimm on January 07, 2014, 04:41:12 PM
Mike "It'll happen eventually" Hearn is back for some self-promotion.

*golf clap*