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EDIT: I'm shutting this topic down.  I gave up on keeping track of this ages ago, because it just got too depressing for me and besides I couldn't keep up.   

People keep sending me messages asking me to take things off the list insisting that so-and-so isn't dead.  If you have successfully revived something, congratulations.  But this list is now a historical artifact and I'm not keeping it up to date. Nor am I interested in debating what "dead" means in terms of a block chain coin. 

Usually it turns out that they are just reusing the name of so-and-so, which is, yes, still dead.  Alternatively, they may have a live block chain of so-and-so which still does not appear on the significant exchanges, or which has still such an insignificant market value, that it is, yes, still dead.  And these points are just too tedious to debate and I don't even have time to research them all.

There are also messages I find particularly depressing, or which make me angry, and those are from people who are digging zombie so-and-so up for one more lurch around the gravestone, in a necromantic version of a pump and dump scam, using the fact that "so-and-so has been around a long time" to reassure their prospective bagholders.

Anyway:  To everybody reading this list:  These coins were what I considered dead, at the time I was maintaining the list.  Some of them may not have stayed dead, and that's okay.  Some of them may be in the hands of people now pretending they aren't dead, as part of a scam, and that's not okay.  I'm not going to help you decide which.

To everybody who has something that appears on this list and believes it isn't dead:  That's fine.  Maybe it isn't.  I am not updating the list, so consider this as information about its history, rather than information about its present.



The objective of this thread is to keep track of the death of altcoins.  My plan is to study how and why they die.  I'll be updating the entries, and posting more complete  notes next to each of these as I investigate and learn things.  Any contributions of information or pointers to it will be welcomed.

In some cases I will want to find and download a copy of their blockchain if it's still available -- often some blockchain archaeology will offer insights into how it all came apart (or how some scammer profited by it).

For purposes of this discussion, I'm going to count any coin as DEAD, even if its blockchain is still running, when it is currently either delisted from all exchanges, or when it ought to have been because its total market capitalization has wandered south of US$5000.  

Nothing will be taken off this list until or unless it claws its way out of the grave by having its market capitalization climb over US$5000 and stay there for 90 days.    

If a coin has never been on an exchange yet, I'm not going to bother counting it as dead, unless it gets listed on an exchange while its market capitalization is still less than US$5,000 (which I'll count as a stillbirth).  In fact I'm tempted to list *EVERY* new launch as a dead coin until 90 days of continuous market cap above US$5000.

I'm using coinmarketcap.com for coins that are still on some exchange somewhere, and counting all coins not currently traded on some exchange as having zero market capitalization.

So, here's a list of dead cryptocurrencies, in more or less alphabetical order.  There are probably a lot more that I don't know about yet, and the cryptocurrencies on this list will eventually be joined by dozens or hundreds more as the market does its magic.  Also, some of these may manage, for a while, to crawl around outside of their graves - though as with other dead things, smart money would be betting against it.  In many cases I don't even know the trading symbol that something used; additions and corrections are welcome.

2chcoin(2ch)66coin (66)8coin
99cents
Acros(ACRO)
AeroCoin(?) Aircoin(AIR) Alcohoin(ALC)Alicoin(ALI)
AlienCoin(ALN) AllAgesCoin(?)
Allahcoin(?)
Alphacoin(ALF)AlphaOmegaCoin(AOC)
Altrocoin(?)
AmericanCoin(AMC) AmeriCoin(?) AmKoin(AMK)
AminaCoin(?) Apecoin(APE)AphroditeCoin(APH)Appcoin(APP)
AppleByte(ABY)Arkhash(ARK)
Armoredcoin()
AstroCoin(ASR)AustraliaCoin(AUS)
Babycoin(BBC)
BaconBitsCoin(YUM)
Badcoin(BAD)
Basecoin(?)
BatCoin(BAT) Beatlecoin (BEA) BeaoCoin(BEC)
BeeCoin(BEE)
BeerCoin(BEER) BeliCoin(BELI) BellaCoin(BELA) Bells(BEL)
BestCoin(BSC)
Billaume(BLL)
Binarycoin(BIC)
Birdcoin (BRD) Bitcoin2(BTC2)
Bitcoin2.0(?)
Bitcoin3.0(?)
Bitcredits(?)
Bitgold(?)
Bitinium(BTN)
Bitland(?)
Bitleu(BTL)Bitpeso(BTP)
Bitpug(?)Bitquark(BTQ) Bitraam(BRM)
BitStar (BITS)
BiteCoin(?) BlakeBitcoin(BBTC)Blazecoin[BLZ]BlobbyCoin(?) Blitzcoin(BLTZ)Bluechip(BCH)Bones(BONES) BonusCoins(BNS)Boomcoin(BMC)
Boringcoin(?)
Bosscoin(BOS)
Bountycoin(BOC)
Boxxycoin(boxx)Boycoin(BOY)
Brokebackmountaincoin(?)
BTCTalkCoin(BCC)Bumbacoin (CLOT) Burbucoin(BUR)
ButterflyCoin(BUR)
Cagecoin(CAGE) [/quote]Observed trading at market cap $2443 on 16 Jun 2014 at coinmarketcap.[/quote]
Californiacoin(CAC)Canada Ecoin(CDN) Cancercurecoin(CCC)
Cannacoin() Capitalcoin(CPTL)CataloniaCoin(CATC)
Catedoge(?)
Chaincoin(?)
Championcoin(?)
Charitycoin(CHA)
Chicoin(CHI)
Chichicoin(UUC)CHNcoin(CHN)Chococoin(CCC)
ChoomCoin(?) ChuckCoin(?) ClockCoin(?)
Clockwisecoin(?)
CloudCoin(CDC)Cnote(CNOTE)
Citizencoin(CTZ)Cococoin(COCO)Coffeecoin(CFC2)Coiledcoin() Coin(COIN) Coincoin(CC)Coino(CON)
Coin2.0(NC2)CoinyeCoin(COYE)
ColbertCoin(CC)CollegeCoin(?)Cometcoin(?)
Compasscoin(CPC)Conspiracycoin (CYC) Cooperationcoin(COOP)
CopperBars(CPR)
CopyCoin(COPY)CosmosCoin(CMC)
Counterpart(XCP)
Crapcoin (CRAP) Crapplecoin(?)
Credits(CRD) Creds (XXC)
Cross Generation Coin(XGC)
CryptoApples(CRA)
Cryptobits(CYB)
Cryptobuck(BUK)
CryptoEagle(CREA)
CryptoEscudo(CESC)
Cryptographic Anomaly(CGA) CryptoLoot(LOOT)
CryptoMeth(METH)Cryptonium(CRN)
CryptoStuds(?)
Cthulhucoin(OFF)
Cubits(QBT)
CuntCoin(?)  Cyclecoin(CCC)
Cypherfunk(FUNK) DeleteCoin(DEL) Detacoin(?)
Denarius(DRS)Digital Commerce(DCM) Dishercoin(?)Dobbscoin(BOB)
DodoCoin(?) Doggcoin()
Dollarpounds(DPZ)
Domecoin(DOME)
Donationcoin(DON)Doubloons(DBL)Dougcoin(DOUG)
Dopecoin(DOPE)
Dragoncoin(DNC)
Dubstepcoin(WUBS)
DuckDuckCoin(DUCK) DuckieCoin(?)Dvorakcoin(DVK)Eaglecoin(EGC)
Ecocoin(ECO)
EdisonX3(?)
E-Gold(?)
EKrona(KRN) Electriccoin(VOLT)Electron (ELT) Electronic Benefit Transfer(EBT)
Electronic Gulden(EFL)Elephantcoin(ELP)
Embargocoin(EBG) Emerald(EMD)
EmuCoin(EMU) Entropycoin(ENC)Eoncoin(EON)
Equestrianbit(EQB)Ermahgerdcern(EMG)
Eternalcoin()
EToken(ETOK)EuroCoin(?)Exilecoin(EXN)
FAILCoin (FAIL)FairBrix(?)FairQuark(FRQ) FastoinSHA(FSS)
Fck Banks Coin(FCK)
Fellatiocoin(BLO)
Ferengicoin(FER)
Ferretcoin(?)
Firecoin()
Fireflycoin(FFC)
Fitcoin (FIT) Floridacoin(FLC, (which it shares with Fluttercoin))
Forexcoin(FRX)Fourchan(?) FourtyTwoCoin(42)
Foxcoin (FOX) Fragcoin(FRAG)
FraudCoin(?) Freedomcoin(FDC)
Frictionlesscoin(FLC)
Frozencoin(FZ)Frycoin (FRY) Furrycoin(FUR)
Galaxycoin(GLX)Gaelcoin(GAC)Galleon(GLN)
Galtcoin(GLT) Gamecoin(GME)GameLeageCoin(GML)Gamerscoin (GMC) Gasolinecoin(DZL)
Gatescoin(GTC)
Gaycoin(GAY)Genecoin(?)Genesiscoin(GNS)
Geocoins(GEO)
Ghostcoin(GHC)Giarcoin (GIAR) GiftCoin(GFT)
Gil(GIL)
Girlcoin(GIRL)
Givecoin (GIVE) Globalboost(BST)Global Denomination  (GDN) Globecoin(GLOBE)Globe(GLB)Goatcoin(GOAT)
Godcoin(GOD)Gold Bars(?)
Goldcoin(GLD)
Gold Pressed Latinum(GPL)
Gollumcoin(GLM)
GoodCoin(GOOD) Goxcoin(GOX)
GeneCoin(?)
Grain(GRA)
Grandcoin(GDC)
Granitecoin (GRN) Graphene(GRP)
GravyCoin(?)GreeceCoin(GRCE) Groincoin(GXG) Growthcoin(GRW)
Guncoin (GUN) H2Ocoin(H20)HackerNewsCoin(?)HashCoin(?)HawaiiCoin(HIC)Heisenberg(HEX)Helixcoin(HXC)
Hellcoin(HLC)
HernCoin(?) Highfivecoin(H5C)Hobbitcoin(HBC) HongKongCoin(HKC)HongKetoCoin(HKC)Horsecoin (HORS)Hotcoin(HOT) HTMLcoin(HTML)
Huatecoin(HUC)
Huitong(HTC)
Huskycoin(HC)Hypercoin(?)
Icoin(ICN)Imperial Coin(IPC)IncaCoin(NKA)Informationcoin(ITC)Inkcoin(INK)
Insanitycoin(WOLF)
Instapay(IPC)Inven(?)IshaCoin(?)Italycoin(ITC)
Ixcoin(?)
JasonCoin(?)
Jennycoin(JNY)
Jerkcoin(?)
Jerkycoin(JKY)
JesusCoin(JJC)(GOD) JezusCoin(?) JoeCoin(?) JunnonCoin(JNC) Kakacoin(KKC)
Karpcoin(KARP)
KarpelesCoin(KAR) KashmirCoin  (KSC) Keisercoin(?)
KhalsaCoin(?)
Kiffercoin(?)
Killercoin(KILR)
Kimdotcoin()
Kimcoin()
Kingcoin()
Koindashian(KOIN)
Klingon Empire Darsek(KED)
Krugercoin(?)
KrugmanCoin(?)Kudos(KDS)
Kumacoin (KUMA)Kushcoin(KHC)
Leadcoin (LDC) Lebowskis(LBW)
LegitCoin(?) Lemoncoin(LMC)
LeproCoin(LPC) Levelcoin(?)
Lightvelocitycoin(LVC)
Limecoin(LC)LimecoinLite (LCL) Limecoinx(LIMX)Liquidcoin(?)Litecoin Plus(XLC)LiteCoinX(LTCX) Livecoin(LVC)
Lolcoin(LOL)
Lottery Tickets (TIX)
LoveCoin(LOVE) Lucky7coin(LK7)
Lycancoin(LYC)
Machinecoin(MAC) MagicCoin(MGC)Magicoin(MAGIC)Maki(MAKI)
Malecoin(?)
Maplecoin(MPL)
Mariocoin(?)
MediaCoin(?)
Mediterraneancoin(MED)Megcoin(MEG)Melange(SPICE)Memecoin(MEM)
Metiscoin(MTS)Milancoin(MLC)
Millionairecoin(MIL) Mjollnircoin(MNR) MmjCoin(?)Molecule(MOL)
Moneyenom(MYM)
MouseCoin()MtGoxcoin(GOX) Muniti(MUN)Mutcoin(MUT)
Naanayam(NYM)
Nakacoin(NKC)
Nanotoken (NAN) Nbcoin(NBC)
Nerdcoin(NERD)
Networkcoin(NWC)
NewStatesmanCoin(?)NeonCoin(?) Nerdcoin(NERD)Networkcoin(NWC)
NexusCoin(?)NightCoin(?)Niuecoin(?)
Noahcoin(NOAH)Noodlyappendagecoin(NDL)
Nucoin(NUC)
Nutcoin(NUT) NXO(?) NXR(?) ObamaCoin(?) Obama_bin_lotteryCoin(?) Ocoin(OSC)
OilCoin(OIL)  OneCoin(?)Onioncoin(ONI)
Onlinegamingcoin(OGC)
Orbitcoin(ORB)
Orcacoin(ORCA) Oreocoin(OREO)ORObit(ORO)Ottomancoin(OTC) Paccoin(PAC)
Pandacoin(PAND) Pandacoin(PANDA) Pangucoin(PGC)
ParallaxCoin(PLX)Patriotcoin(USA)
Paycoin (PYC) Peacecoin(PEC)
Peerpay(?)
Penguincoin(PENG)Pennies(CENT)
Peoplecoin (PPL) Phcoin(PHC) Phicoin(PHI)
PhotonCoin(PHO)Picoin(?)
Pieces(?)
Pikacoin(PIK)Piniumcoin(PNC)
Piratecoin(PIR) PixelCoin(PXL) Platinum Bars(?)Platinumcoin(PT)Playtoken(PLT)
Pokercoin(POK)Polcoin(PLC)Polishcoin(?)
Polycoin(?)
Popcoin(POP)PopularCoin(POP) Poundcoin(PUK)
Powercoin(POW)Primcoin(?) Preminecoin(PMC)Procoin(PCN)  Prospercoin(PRC) Protoshares(PTS)
Pwnycoin(PWNY)
Pxlcoin(PXL)QuackCoin(?)
Quatloo(QTL)Qubitcoin(Q2C)Quebecoin(QBC) Quick Quick Coin(QQC)
Quora (QUORA)
Rabbitcoin(?)
Radioactivecoin(RAD)
Rainbowcoin(LGBT) Rainbowgoldcoin(RAIN)
Rapidcoin(RPD)
Rastacoin(RTC)Ratcoin (RATC) Realcoin(REC)
RiceCoin(?)Richcoin(RCH)
Rightcoin (RTC) RiseCoin(?) Rocketcoin(ROC)
Romancoin(ROM)Rosecoin(?)
Rotocoin(RT2)Rubycoin(?)
Royalcoin(RYC) Rupaycoin(RUP)
Saffroncoin (SFR) SailCoin(?)
SambaCoin(SMB)
Sapphirecoin (SPH) Savecoin(SPC)Savingcoin(SAV) Saw(SAW) Scamcoin(SCC)Scoin(SCO)
Scotcoin(SCOT)
Secondscoin()
Securecoin (SRC) Seedcoin(SDC)
Serracoin (SRR) Sha1coin(SHA) Shares(?) Sherlockcoin(SHC)Shibecoin(SHIBE)Shillingcoin(?)
Siamesecoin(SIS)Sifcoin(?) SiliconValleyCoin(XSV)Silkcoin(SILK)Silver bars(?)Silvercoin (SRC, before Securecoin had it) SilvioBerlusCoin(?) Singularity(SING)Skeincoin(SKC)Skycoin(SYC)Skycoin(SKY)Skynet-coin(SNC)Slendercoin(SNC)
SlothCoin(SLOTH)Smartcoin(?)
Snowcoin(SNC)
Soapbar(SOAP)
Sochicoin(SOCHI)
Socialcoin (SOC) SolCoin(SOL)
SolidCoin(?)
Speedcoin(SPC)Spirecoin()
Spodermancoin(SDM)
Sprout(?)
Stackedcoin(?)
Stacycoin(?) Stalwartbucks(SBX)
Starcoin(STR)
StarvingArtistCoin(?) STLcoin(STL)StockCoin (STC)Stop(?) Storagecoin(?)
Stories(STY) Streamcoin(STRC)
SupercalifragilisticexpialidociousCoin(?)  Suncoin(SUN)Supercoin(SUPER) Superherocoin(?)
SurgeCoin(SRG) Swagcoin(SWAG)
Swisscoin(?)Switchcoin(SWITCH)
Syncoin(SYN)
Tacocoin(TCO)
Takcoin[TAK]Takeoutcoin(?)
Techcoin(TECH)Teddycoin(TDY)Tenebrix(?)TenFiveCoin(10-5)
Teslacoin(TES)ThaiCoin(?) Thebotcoin(TBN)
Thcoin(THC)
Thecoin(?)Thebotcoin(TBN)
TheSmurfscoin (TSC) Thundercoin(?)
Tigercoin(TGC)
Timekoin(TK)
Titanium(TTN)
Tittiecoin(TTC)
TokeCoin(?) Tomatocoin(?)
TomScottCoin(?)TraceCoin(?)
TraderCoin(TDC)Traincoin(XTN)
Trollcoin(?)
Troptions(?)
Truckcoin(TRK)Turbocoin(XTP)
UFOcoin(UFO)
Ultimatecoin(ULT)
UniteCoin(UNI)Unitedscryptcoin(USC)
United Federation Credit(UFC)
Unitedscryptcoin(USC)
Unitycoin(UNT)
Universitycoin(UVC)Vadercoin(VADR)
Valuecoin(VLC)
Vampirecoin(VMP) Vanillacoin(?)
Vcoin(?)
Vegascoin(VGC)Veilcoin(VEIL)Velocitycoin(VEL)
Vendettacoin(VAC)
Venividivicicoin(VVV)Verncoin(VRN)
VeroCoin(VRO)Version(V)
VirtualMiningCoin(VMC)Viruscoin(?)
VisaCoin(VISA) VisnCoin(VISN)  Vodkacoin(?)
Votecoin(?)
Watcoin(?)
Wavecoin(WVS)WeAreSatoshi(WAS)
Webcoin(WEB)
Wecoin(WEC)
Wikicoin(WIKI)
Wincoin(WIN)Wolongcoin(WOL)
World Football Coin(?)
Wpcoin(WPC)
Xcoin(XCO)
X11coin(?)
X13coin(?)
X14coin(X14) Xedoscoin(XDC) Xencoin(XEN)
Xivra(xiv)
XXLcoin(XXL) YACcoin(YACC)
Yamashitacoin (YMC) Yangcoin()
Yincoin()
YinYuanCoin(YYC)Yuan Bao(YBC)
ZCoin(?)Zedcoin(?)
Zenithcoin(ZTC)Zeuscoin(ZEU)
Zodiaccoin(ZOD)
Zombiecoin(ZMB)
Zurcoin(ZUR)

29 April 2014: added Cannacoin, Credits, Extremecoin, and ORObit.

Wow! So many dead coins! :)

But maybe some of them will reborn :P

This graveyard will became huge in 1 year ... :)
Coins are dying like a bacteria in HCl.

You need to talk to Doctor West about that....  It's possible, I guess; some of these blockchains are still running.  But as I said, the smart money is in betting against it (especially if you can bet the coins in question against their own success....) 


Strange aeons indeed.

In the long run, there are very nearly as many deaths as there are births. 

I have spent way too much time on this - collating and correlating information from many sources is very time consuming and very picky.  There are inconsistencies and trouble even identifying some of these cryptocurrencies.  Anyway, I'm going to go read a book before I continue....

There are Zombie Coins too.. Like FlappyCoin :)
It was pretty dead ... :) and now ... back from the grave...

Well but yes in definition - coin will never die while blockchain is alive :P
So perhaps Flappy wasn't really dead. Just a heartattack or something..

Anyway.
Great thread! I will watch it to see how huge this graveyard will become in the future.

You should put this on a wiki or something as it is pretty interesting history. I can imagine there will be people in 10 years time looking back at this and chuckling at the names and wondering what the hell people were thinking.

It's huge though.  I really am sort of counting on people contributing information to this thread.  Seriously, post whatever you know about any of these, or point at relevant threads, because this probably won't ever complete if I'm the only one doing it. 

For example, today I went to find out why Bellacoin died, and you know what?  As far as I can tell it shouldn't have.  Smooth fair launch, very small premine, valuable innovation in the windows wallet, and dead.  As far as I can tell, the only real strokes against it were that the developer is completely unknown (less than fifty posts when he announced) and coming from an account whose ID/email is hidden.  But hunting this down takes an hour, and I'm not going to be spending more than a couple hours a day on this project.  For the last couple of days, assembling the list, it's been much more than a couple hours a day.  But moving forward?  At a couple hours a day, this will take a long long time to do myself. 

So if you have knowledge to contribute, please -- help out!

Good work...  ;)

More than a list it is a Necropolis... I wonder if one day there will be an apocalipsys day and instead of "Walkind Dead" we will have the Walking Coin...

Great list of dead and almost dead coins. Like someone else said, it should be preserved for posterity (and a few laughs). Funny reading through it and seeing coins I was invested in, even made a fair bit of money off them... and some that are carrying my mining earnings to the grave.

It will also be interesting if any coins on the list make it off their deathbed. I know folks are working under the hood on lovecoin to try to restore it. Rupayacoin (Rupees) isn't really dead, though it needs some boosting. Likewise surgecoin is still functioning and even saw some upticking on Poloniex yesterday.

I guess my only criticism would be the statement about needing to stay over $5000 market cap for 90 days. 90 days?? That's a lifetime in cryptocurrency. What about a week or two? That, and/or a market volume benchmark, should be enough to establish that a coin has returned from the dead... at least for now.

RIP

90 days is, I hope, too long for pump-n-dumps to force daily amendments to the list.  If something is over the line for 7 days, or even 30 days, I expect someone is just doing a pump-n-dump.  If it's over the line for 90 days, it might actually be coming back.

I can picture it -- bagholder coin!  With an initial distribution corresponding to the final distribution of all of the above, and an announcement thread where exchanges, price, WTS/WTB, are strictly off topic and will be deleted by moderator!

 ;D

Today I added Skeincoin and Muniti.  I have no idea what Muniti is, but I remember thinking Skeincoin was okay.  I also added a scamcoin called "Thecoin", after reading about it in an old thread.  I don't know its history, but apparently its wallet included a password stealer.

Muniti is a country coin for malta - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=545886.0

Chaincoin is not totally dead - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=422149.0

Pennies went zombie - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=590501.0

Great work!!!

+1 for StableCoin (SBC)
reason: dev left community with promises, then disappeared. months later came back, same game. Now it's dead!

Chaincoin is trading for one Litoshi and there aren't enough of it for market cap to rise above ground level.  So, yah, that's dead even though the blockchain is still running.  

Thanks for the pointer on Muniti.  

I feel your pain, but SBC isn't quite dead yet; market cap is still at $15K.  But when it dies, we'll know why. 

Protoshares(PTS) should not be in this list, its very alive.

UFO ist double listed.

Mousecoin (wallet-stealing-scam) is missing.

Anyway, good work, huge list  ;D

Is feathercoin dead yet.

Ah.  Found "Protoshares" in an old list but not with a current market cap.  "Bitshares" with a market cap of a little over $5M now has the symbol PTS.  I've removed Protoshares for the time being, on the assumption that I just blew it on following a name change.


Fixed, thanks.


Ooooh, I didn't know about that one.  Thanks for the pointer.

Nope.  Market cap is still over $3M. 

Cryptocointalk has a section for DYING OTHER ALGO CRYPTOCOINS

https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/888-dying-other-algo-cryptocoins/

This contains Kimcoin, Kingcoin, Obamacoin, Secondscoin, and Zurcoin

You should have different sections:

• Skeletons: Really dead, no way to revive them
• Zombies: $0 < Market cap < $5000, alive blockchain
• Warm bodies: $5000 < Market cap < $15000

;)

Good point.

With that in mind, it should be possible to create a website that automatically tracks and estimates the "liveliness" of a coin.

I like the idea of organizing this better as well. Calling something like Rupayacoin dead, for example, doesn't seem right when instead it just seems to be very slow in maturing (market is slowly firming up on Bittrex I've noticed), rather than a flash in the pan.

We might want to organize it differently than market cap though, or with additional criteria. Thinking off the top of my head:
1. Is a coin delisted from all/most exchanges?
2. What is the coins volume on any exchanges that remain?
3. What is the status of the blockchain? Total hashrate for it?
4. Status RE: any scams or scandals involving the coin or dev?

I have the same issue on my site. When do you say a coin is dead? The more criteria, the more work it takes to verify each coin.

1. Is a coin delisted from all/most exchanges? - It takes forever for coins to be delisted
2. What is the coins volume on any exchanges that remain? - All exchanges or just major ones?
3. What is the status of the blockchain? Total hashrate for it? - Dead blockcain is obvious but what hashrate is cutoff?
4. Status RE: any scams or scandals involving the coin or dev? - Do launch issues count?

1. I think some exchanges are more quick than others to delist dead/broken altcoins. I'd rather err on the side of being slow to declare a coin dead (not fair to those holding it to prematurely write off their investment, in my opinion, if they can do something to salvage the coin.) Attempts to rescuscitate coins (Lovecoin, Asiacoin, etc.) complicate the question of what constitutes a dead altcoin.
2. I know it's more work to track, but volume should be irrespective of the exchange it is happening on. A coin that is dead on Mintpal but active on Allcrypt, odd as that might be, shouldn't be called dead overall.
3. Good question on hashrate. Anything more than 0 suggests the coin is technically still breathing (so to speak). But if only a few rigs are mining it and doing so less than 24/7, it creates the possibility of drops to 0 hashrate that would lead to delays in transactions. Can someone estimate (by math or experience) a reasonable minimum that is required for a blockchain to keep running with no transaction delays assuming difficulty adjustments and so on are not an issue? This might be a tricky one to strictly define.
4. Good point about launch issues; this is also a criteria that is going to be hard to define so it is more of a guideline than a strict criterion. Maybe let mention of launch issues drop after 90 days or so assuming the coin survives past them.

Added a bunch of scamcoins (found a list in an old post) today.  Since these vanish after the scammers get the money, they fade from knowledge.  The exchanges drop them like a hot rock, the threads about them get shoved down to page 34, etc.  Not much evidence is left of them relative to how common they actually are.

Also added a long writeup on aircoin - wow.  There were so many things wrong with that, from the outset, that I just don't know where to start.  'Aircoin' can talk a good game, but no matter how well-spoken somebody is, math either works or doesn't work.  And people were treating it as though it was serious.  In fact, people still are!

Thanks for all your effort. This will be a fascinating subject as time goes by. Probably deserves more than an ephemeral bitcointalk thread. A Necromicon Museum website? ;-)


UPDATE: I do have one request: Can you make a note on coins you have listed, where they are separate from new, living coins? I'm concerned that you will be accused of spreading FUD about coins like Blackcoin and Fluttercoin which are doing well, but earlier incarnations (I assume) of those names appear on your list.

Blackcoin and Fluttercoin, when first released, came out with wallets that contained malware. 

Later, non-malware versions of these wallets became popular. 

It is very hard to tell whether the malware was intentional or not.

Anyway, I went and had a look, and these do not in fact belong on the current list; their market cap is still way over the cutoff lines I'm using.  So I'll go delete them.

Melange is not dead, nor is Offerings to Cthulhu. Quite to the contrary, we upgraded both wallets for heartbleed a couple weeks back and Offerings (not Cthulhucoin) has now been graced with transaction messaging--the first QRK clone to do so AND it didn't require a hard fork.

While we're on the topic, Doubloons was most certainly not a coingen.io coin, it predates the existence of that site by more than 10 months; though you're right, it is pretty much dead, so it can stay in the list.

Apologies; I thought they were gone.  Coinmarketcap is not tracking Melange, nor Cthulhucoin.

Where are they trading and what is their current market cap?

No worries, our coins are not designed to be profitable, but OFF trades on Allcrypt and Sci-Fi-Ex, and Melange only on Sci-Fi-Ex. Neither has much of a following, but development and mining persist.

Interestingly for your notes, Melange is a clone of Skeincoin :) Also, one other I noticed, PowerCoin (PWC) also predates coingen.io by at least 9 months time, was created by NWO. SKC is novel in its use of skein only as a PoW, but RedKendra being absent is odd, he's got many coins to look after.

rip </3

Just today i was talking with the guys on IRC about the absentness of RedKendra being unusual. It has been almost a month and a lot of things have happened since then. Fortunately the wallet had the Heartbleed fix update, so probably RedKendra is lurking under another account, but no activity tends to spread FUD massively.... and count that this month one of the two main pools of SKC was shot down. Soon we will open a SKC Foundation pool to ammend this.

Great list..must have been a hell of a job to create it!

I'm not sure if RainbowGoldCoin (RAIN) should be on the list though..looks like thats just a real slow starter

These two should definitely be on your list ...

StandardCoin (STD) (who would have thought with such a name?)
MultiCoin (MUL)

IPO scams were the dev ran with the invested BTC

again..great list ,thanks for the effort!

Lol, the "NecronomniCOIN".

Good to see there is some Selection in the Crypto Evolution.


EDIT: you failed to add FailCoin, or failed FailCoin to fail? ;)

Poloniex announced they were delisting yin coin and yang coin and both coins networks were dead. A couple of days later poloniex announced they were not delisting them after all, the dev came up with new plans and the networks started moving gain. You can never be too sure a coin is really dead.

That's an impressively long list...

It could become a valuable resource to developers wanting to resurrect a coin.

Yep. Piratecoin made a last dead cat bounce as allcrypt has become online, but now its also dead.

This is just a shameless lie. If you say stuff like that give a source.

Also not a dead coin. (multiple devs working on it and innovation is happening, but apparently you rate coins by marketcap only,if that is the case. I'll buy some more of them.)

PS. Guess where the Myriad SkeinMiner comes from. (Both Minerd, POCLBM-skc, and CGminer-Skein)

SkeinCoin should not be on this list for many reasons.

SKC and MYR have the same 'dev.'

No they don't
RedKendra !== 8bitcoder.
Reorder did the CGskein and POCLBM-skein miner.

(Just looking at the list. CloudCoin, wasn't CoinGen the first time, only the second time.)

Sorry but you are wrong there, they are one in the same. In fact RK has a lot more alt names you may mot be privvy to as well as quite a few other coins. Not that there is anything wrong with that..,

Any proof that he is also behind Myr? (RedKendra came from the Zeta team)

(Who are you behind this sockpuppet? )

The reason I'm focusing on Market cap is to try to avoid arguments.  If you make some sort of squishy judgement call that takes a dozen different things into account and values each one subjectively, then there's no end of arguments about whether something does or does not belong here and ultimately it just comes down to whether I personally like the innovations, the rhetoric, and PR literature that a coin's devs/promoters are spinning. 

Instead I wanted a simple, clear line that people can see for themselves rather than arguing about.  It's not about what anybody likes, it's about what is true and what is false and hopefully what everybody can see to be true or false.  Dead coins have zero market cap.  So, I picked some number arbitrarily close to zero but still big enough that coins which have reached it are still visible, and use that number as my cutoff point.

Skein had development in its favor, a good community, and made some contributions.  Part of what I hope to find out here is whether that's enough to help it escape death.  I hope that it is.  If not then it's an object lesson for everybody who'd like to launch an altcoin that these things are not a guarantee of success.

Paccoin is alive and well. Its like Mark Twain said, “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”

If it's alive, who is tracking its market cap?

• AmericanCoin is not a coingen coin. The network no longer communicates with the Litecoin network, and even when it did, it didn't cause the AMC network to fork.
• AndroidTokens is not a coingen coin.
• Bottlecaps isn't dead. It has a market cap of approximately 20K USD.
• The original CloudCoin was not a coingen coin.
• Doubloons is not a coingen coin.
• EZCoin isn't dead. It has a market cap of greater than 20K USD.
• Gamecoin is not a coingen coin.
• The original Onecoin (ONC) was not a coingen coin.
• The original PowerCoin was not a coingen coin. It was killed in a 51% attack.

These are just a few of the corrections I found while skimming your list.

Why silicon valley coin died? wasnt concept of giving it to tech people good? was it scam or what?

okay, here's a list of coins generated via coingen, as maintained automatically by the coingen site.  I haven't listed all of these because with a lot of them there's no evidence that they even launched. 

http://coingen.bluematt.me/status.html

Gamecoin, Cloudcoin, Doubloon, Onecoin, and Americancoin have definitely  been generated by coingen.

If there've been multiple coins by those names, then certainly the fact that at least one of them was a coingen coin is an important part of the history, and may be one of the reasons why it's dead.  And honestly it doesn't matter which of them was the original; this thread is only about which one is dead.

Androidtokens, though was definitely my mistake; the coingen coin was 'androin' and I misread it.  Thanks for the info.

Regarding Bottlecaps and EZcoin, please provide a source for your information and I'll be happy to correct the list.  I observed that they've been delisted from coinmarketcap at http://coinmarketcap.com/all.html - where else should I be looking? 

http://crypto-prices.com/

When I can't find a price on coinmarketcap, these guys usually have the coin listed.

First, thanks for the additional information resources.

According to http://crypto-prices.com/CAP, Bottlecaps has traded today at under USD$0.006.  According to http://www.cryptocoinexplorer.com/, Its current block height is 443657.  At 10 coins per block, that's a market capitalization of $26619.  It's Alive!

According to http://crypto-prices.com/EZC, EZcoin has traded today at under USD$0.00113.  According to http://altexplorer.info/chains/EZC/block_crawler.php, its block height is currently 389905.  According to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=220103.0, through that range it's creating 50 coins per block. That works out to a market cap of USD$21445, so it does NOT belong on the list.  So I'll go fix that.

That was kind of a pain in the butt to look up.  Hmm, if they're doing that well, I wonder why coinmarketcap dropped them?

Today, added Bitleu, H2Ocoin, and RainbowCoin. 

I'm not ignoring the advice that Paccoin isn't dead; but I'm having big trouble trying to confirm it. 

I found a blockchain explorer that gives its current block height and verifies that the blockchain is still running (currently at a block height of 274920).  But that's not enough to know that it's still meaningfully alive. 

I have not found any exchange which lists a current price for Paccoin,   Without that basic information I can't even try to calculate a market cap that would take it off this list.

I think some coins are just very thinly traded, which is why Coinmarketcap may delist them. Not dead, but in kind of suspended animation. ;-)

CMC is not the is-all, end-all authority. I understand that you are basing a coins health by market cap, but market cap means nothing to the health of a coin's network.

• Coingen.io Registration - 2013 December 29
• Gamecoin - 2013 May 12
• Cloudcoin - 2013 July 24
• Americancoin - 2013 May 28
• Onecoin - 2013 June 13
• EZCoin - 2013 May 29

These coins could not possibly have been created by Coingen.io. If you are keen to the history of it all, maybe you should mention that they are not the ones that were/are listed on exchanges.

iirc, he did offer his services for a considerable while before actually putting up a website about it.  I'll see if I can find anything that confirms the status of these coins - or for now, I'll at least update them to show that they launched before coingen.io was registered. 

I'm not convinced this list is a very reliable indicator that a coin is dead. Bitcoin is currently on the coingen list between cybercoin and jean!


cybercoin
Waiting for 6 confirmations of 0.11 BTC sent to 1NRXAaUPRU4H8CLLxemtGvJzmiMNmn9H27
Not Started

bitcoin
Waiting for 6 confirmations of 0.16 BTC sent to 1PkmJs49MmEUrBiBBy1VsYehZsE94c5j3C
Not Started

jean
Waiting for 6 confirmations of 0.01 BTC sent to 1CSdhjKLDNYoCidRG15CuW3oadRoRSGKs8

Today added Limecoin (currently market cap 4406), Gaelcoin (currently market cap 4038), Polcoin(currently market cap 3802), and icoin(currently market cap 2554).

Icoin in particular has had a spectacular drop;  I have noted a former market cap of $14700 for it and I think that was only a week and a half ago.  Limecoin, at the same time, had a market cap of about $19400, so it has dropped "only" about 75%. 

It seems that when the bottoms drop out of these, they drop very fast.  Which I wouldn't really have noticed except that I happened to keep former market cap information a few days ago. 

Added Rotocoin, Cryptographic Anomaly, and Electronic Gulden.

Silicon Valley Coin - Claimed sending out a mailer that said "free money" to people in Silicon Valley would spark mass adoption. The pitch was that someone influential would get their junkmail invitation to receive 600 worthless coins, then head right to their computer and start downloading the wallet from some website that would be completely foreign to them. Then said person would say WOW, Im going to talk to my friends and get this thing going. Not a joke. The early investors/miners, dev, and his sockpuppets were dead serious. The thread is a classic example of a pump and dump attempt.

This is a really great idea. I hope more people post details they know! It would be amazing if we were able to get back to the beginning, catch up, then stay on top of it.

Truly a great idea.

You started just in time to pull it off

Electric (Volt) - Started by "Deviant Two". The owner of mining pools, a self proclaimed Christian who was also involved in the Cryptorush exchange.

What about Tenebrix and Fairbrix? Tenebrix was the first scrypt coin and Fairbrix was a clone of Tenebrix without the premine. Litecoin was heavily based on Fairbrix I believe.

Are they considered dead or not?

Yes, in fact they are dead.  Or at least, no longer traded. Thanks for the headsup; they just hadn't popped up in any of the spots I found on my initial search.  So I added them today.

Thanks for the info, on Silly Valley coin and Electriccoin.  Like I said, if I have to hunt all this stuff on my own I'll probably never catch up! 

I just saw that Aphroditecoin was traded today. 

And that at the price it was traded, the market capitalization for it is standing at US$ SIXTEEN dollars.

That's kind of stunning.  People are still running a block chain that represents a currency ALL OF WHICH could now be bought  cheaper than a pizza.

Today added VirtualMiningCoin(VMC) to the list. 

Also updated Cannacoin - someone wrote to tell me it isn't dead, and to be fair its market cap is over $5K at the moment.  We'll see if it makes it for 90 days.

I notice Bellacoin and Skeincoin are back over $5K too.  I hope those make it out of the grave, but I'm not going to play favorites. 

And I notice Aphroditecoin's whole market cap has declined from less than the price of a pizza to less than the price of a decent hamburger.  But it's still there.  What's up with that?

JesusCoin will be back after three days.

This is a great list and it'd be nice to see it hosted somewhere.

Link to revival thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615965.0

where you will also find explanation what we're aiming to do with it.

And it's not a coingen coin, where'd you get that idea from?
♥

On the coingen.io site there's a list of coins that people have paid him to generate.  One such coin was named 'lovecoin'.  I don't know whether it's the one you're working with, or whether a coingen framework was where the previous dev started, or what.  But there's definitely been a 'lovecoin' generated via coingen.

I went and investigated about Lovecoin in order to update it properly and make sure that there's a proper distinction between the first round and the relaunch in this list. 

It's a real shame about the scammy first version, 'lovecoinproject' vanishing with the premine, etc.  Best of luck trying to resurrect this. 

If you don't mind me asking, what's your motivation here?  Why would you come in behind a fairly clearcut case of a scam, and try to relaunch or 'redeem' this thing? 

No I don't mind at all, it's a fair question.

But first of all I'm not totally convinced that the original coin operator was committing a premeditated scam, although of course
he was after financial gain like everybody else. That is still something we will find out.

My decision to keep the coin afloat was influenced by two factors, 1) The immediate cause was that I wanted to react against unprofessionalism in the coin creation business  2) more than that I like the idea and the theme of the coin - whatever its original purpose - and I see a possibility of re-crafting it as an instrument with which the community can prove that crypto isn't just about numbers and greed, it can embody social innovation and advance the evolution of decentralized communities.

So my intentions are a bit idealist, and time will tell how irrational they are...

I remembered after posting that there was another coin of the same name, and that is possibly the Lovecoin created by coingen.

Today I went and learned the sad sad story of Etoken.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=436750.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=403597.0

A 'rare' coin with a one-coin per block reward -- except that there were two 'special' blocks that paid a million each.  It was managed with periodic bonus multipliers, whose harmonic periods created a pattern of constructive reinforcement.   Which was, of course, destructive to the value of the coin.

Did they not look at the source code and realize what it meant?  Could they not do math?  Or did they make the more profound mistake of implicitly trusting a completely unknown, untraceable human being? 

Can't argue with your definition, as stated - tho market capitalization of DobbsCoin (BOB) value as compared to USD is about as valid as counting the coin dead because of it's initial coingen roots. Coingen has many issues, all of which have been completely overcome over this projects learning curve. Coingen is for the most part a solid platform with commit historys all the way back to Bitcoins Initial Commit in August 2009 (https://github.com/dobbscoin/dobbscoin-source/commits/master?page=119) and once repaired has proven itself a worthy service. Shit.. coingen got me into crypto to begin with, so it was certainly worth the .2 BTC just for the experience, not to mention the fun I've had the last five months. I can imagine the same can be said for a bazillion shitcoin 'developers'.

As to an DobbsCoins (or any private currencies)'s relevance to the USD as a qualification for your death sentence:  Not everyone's intention is profit. Besides, by this time next year you may not even be able to buy a sandwtch with $5,000 USD. And by X-Day - After the Xists planetary carpet bombing, when THOSE WORTHY of "BOBS" LOVE are all wisked off the the Corporate SiN Galaxy aboard the 'Pleasure Saucers' ..your precious bitcoins wont be worth SQUAT, 'cos anyone who's been paying attention knows that Dobbscoin (BOB) is THE ONLY cryptocurency accepted there.. & THE PINKS WILL BE BUMMIN' -oh yes!! It is TRUE.



     (BOB) Dobbscoin is the Officially Approved crypto-currency of the Church of the SubGenius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius), a TWENTY+ Year old UFO 'parody religion/SEX Cult' that targets many better known belief systems. The Church of the SubGenius teaches a complex belief system that focuses on the clip-art Deity, J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, and shines the light upon A Global Conspiracy bent on stealing your Slack. Of course, what 'religion'/Cult would be complete without UFO's, ..tons of SEX and a grand Armageddon scenario.  More: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius#Deities)

"BOB" Dobbs in the Media

• The Church of the SubGenius has been featured in: Playboy, WIRED (http://archive.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/07/13466), Rolling Stone, and preformed hundreds of successful Live Night Club Shows. "BOB" even has Nationally Distributed Video ARISE (Polygram). Not to mention "BOB" is endorsed by most major Counterculture Heroes and Subculture artists.
• The Band 'SUBLIME' ⁽¹⁾, shipped a 23 track '40 OZ OUNCES TO FREEDOM' CD through Skunk Records - with a Dobbshead on it.
• The Band 'DEVO' ⁽²⁾ is SubGenius as fuck! (see below)
• Negativland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EseXUufowr8): You may have never heard of Negativland, but you've probably heard clips of their stuff as bumper music on late night programs such as Ground Zero w/Clyde Lewis (http://www.groundzeromedia.org/).

Famous SubGenii include:

• Robert Anton Wilson⁽³⁾: "Pope BOB" was an ordained minister in the Church of the SubGenius, wrote for and was featured in the Three Fisted Tales of "BOB" (http://www.amazon.com/Three-Fisted-Tales-Bob-Ivan-Stang/dp/0671671901) book, and also featured "BOB" in The Illumanatus Trilogy (http://www.amazon.com/Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Golden-Leviathan/dp/0440539811/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408389277&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=illumanatus+trilogy); one of the many books he authored himself.
• Patrick Volkerding⁽⁴⁾ of Slackware Linux: 'Slackware' -duh
• Timothy Leary,
• Ken Kesey,
• PeeWee Herman (click for image (http://dobbscoin.info/images/peewee-bobdobbs.jpg)),
• Wierd Al,
• R. Crumb (https://www.google.com/search?q=r+crumb+subgenius&client=firefox-a&hs=zcd&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=rYi9U__CONO0yATiuIEQ&ved=0CCwQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=882) (Subculture Comics: Fritz the Cat/WEIRDO), drew & wrote for "BOB".
• Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller IS a PAID Minister/Member of The Church of the SubGenius.
• Jello Biafra to name just a few

More about Famous SubGenius (http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/trivia/X0009_CELEB.TXT.html)

The Church of the SubGenius even has three weekly Syndicated Radio Shows, in 15 Markets.
WCSB (http://www.wcsb.org) Cleveland, WREK (http://www.wrek.org) Atlanta & KPFA (https://www.kpfa.org) Berkeley, Ca, as well as countless of minor broadcast networks.

The Atari - ST ⁽⁵⁾
At the time the Atari ST started shipping, a limited set of GEM fonts were included within the ROMs. These fonts featured the standard 8x8 pixel graphical character set for the ST (the main in-ROM "font" for GEM, and text-mode TOS operations in color modes) and contains a recognizable facsimile of the face of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, (the figurehead of the Church of the Subgenius).

The FACT is.. (BOB) DobbsCoin is about Slack,
It's about FIGHTING The Conspiracy, and it's about getting BACK what THEY Stole away.
And if we just so happen to 'Survive The Great Cataclysms Through UFO Transport, while taking control through liberated weirdness by tapping our secret 'Abnormality Potential. ..then FUCK YES, I'll have TWO.

---

⁽¹⁾: 40 OZ OUNCES TO FREEDOM' CD initially/ltd. released with a Dobbshead on it. (no shit)(link1 (http://dobbscoin.info/images/sublime1.jpg)) (link2 (http://dobbscoin.info/images/sublime2.jpg)) (link3 (http://dobbscoin.info/images/sublime3.jpg)).
⁽²⁾: Devo actively embraced the Church of the SubGenius in concert (source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo)). Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO produced the audio for The Bobacatto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5wR8odaQfo), and you can watch him HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoAle6X4EJA) speaking on The Conspiracy, the life-changing power of "BOB" and Slack. (source: ARISE The SubGenius Movie : Polygram Video).
⁽³⁾: Wilson also joined the Church of the SubGenius, who referred to him as Pope Bob. He contributed to their literature, including the book Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob", and shared a stage with their founder, Rev. Ivan Stang on several occasions Winterstar-01 (http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/Winterstar-01/winterstar-01.html) & Austin, TX (http://subgenius.com/bigfist/pics13/RAW/index.html). Wilson also founded the Guns and Dope Party, and its corresponding Burning Man theme camp. See also: Historia Discordia (http://historiadiscordia.com/page/5)
⁽⁴⁾: Patrick Volkerding, the software engineer known as the founder and maintainer of Slackware Linux distro, is a SubGenius. The use of the word Slack in "Slackware" is a homage to J. R. "Bob" Dobbs: "I'll admit that it was SubGenius inspired. In fact, back in the 2.0 through 3.0 days we used to print a dobbshead on each CD. (https://www.soldierx.com/category/Tags/Linux)" -Patrick Volkerding.
⁽⁵⁾Atari ST: Atari ST BASIC had a dobbshead easter egg (image (http://dobbscoin.info/images/ST_BASIC_-_J.R._Bob_Dobbs.gif))


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Sorry sir but they were not produced by coingen. They were done by hand using shakezula's cloning guide. We can battle it out all you want but the fact stands

I disagree. It is important to differentiate whether the coingen coin died or the hand-crafted coin died.


See the original 11-month-old commit:

https://github.com/bottlecaps-foundation/bottlecaps/blob/master/src/rpcdump.cpp#L50 (https://github.com/bottlecaps-foundation/bottlecaps/blob/master/src/rpcdump.cpp#L50)


Overwhelming balance of probability: not a coingen coin.

Cheers,

Graham

     I'm personally butt-hurt over the term dead, when it still has a thriving private community.  Hell, the fact that Dobbscoin produces less than 8k BOBz/day, is itself a reason no one's willing to sell them under 600 - and explains why it's marketcap is "dead". Whether it began as a coingen or not means nothing about where it stands today. Dobbscoin may have been spawned a coingen, but It's a Gideon built masterpiece now, in all flavors, with a working testnet, & getnetworkhash functions, it's own zero premined genesis block, and still has its original blockchain, custom graphic wallets, and a dedicated community of Slackers mining and trading it amongst themselves: marketcap in USD be damned.  With a cap of only 21Mil coins - I'm still able to get 1500 per day (w/only 300KHs) and disseminate them among the community because it's a private community slackproject. It's not about volume, it's about Slack.


Just because some schmucks aren't able to mine several hundred thousand a day
just to dump on an ignorant speculating overpopulation.. does NOT mean a coin is dead.

Once you understand that Dobbscoin begain as a school project, mandating to be chosen because it was an EXISTING open source application to then be re-engineered, starting from scratch was not an option. Were it not for Matt Corallos coingen service, Dobbscoin wouldn't exist. It's prequalification aught not be a pre-requisition for it's demise.

If it weren't for (BOB) I'd not have learned to install debian..
If ya want commerce.. use Bitcoin (BTC).. if ya want Slack use (BOB) Dobbscoin.
Personally, I don't want to see anyone buying it.. but if they did - i wouldn't judge.
I'm holding the bag for "Bob", an my saq is ABSOLUTLY HUGE.  

Dobbscoin (BOB) (http://www.dobbscoin.info): The ONLY crypto-currency accepted on the Pleasure Saucers.
Give yourself to (Bob) freely, joyously, without an atom of restraint --NOW -- and your worries are over.
PRAISE "BOB" - LET THERE BE SLACK.

Ooh, yes of course, that's a perfectly plausible path for auto-didacts repelled by the tenor of mainstream response. I hadn't really given any time to thinking through the details of what "coingen coin" might more broadly imply. Useful, thanks.

Cheers,

Graham

nvm, irrelevant. I misinterpreted the request.

Cheers,

Graham

I think there's some misunderstanding here.  

When I say that something was generated via coingen, I am NOT saying that was the end of its development.  Nor am I saying that it deserves to die for that reason.

When I say that something is dead, I'm not saying that that means it *ought* to be dead.  Bellacoin is a nice example of something that showed real innovation and worthwhile development, that really ought not have died. Although it might still pull through because its block chain is still running, it's close enough to death that I can't leave it off the list and have a list made according to a consistent, impartial rule.

Nor does it happen, in practice, that anything dies just because I say it is dead or dying.  I don't sentence things to death.  I just put up a monument so they won't be forgotten.  That's kind of like blaming the guy who carves the gravestones for the deaths.

So, you call a baby alt., meaning one that's in it's infantsy in regards to marketcap, like Dobbscoin - dead?

Of course, I'm just ribbing you now..
but you certainly wouldn't call your own child dead if it were still very much not-dead, just because she wasn't turning a profit.



     (BOB) Dobbscoin is the Officially Approved crypto-currency of the Church of the SubGenius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius), a TWENTY+ Year old UFO 'parody religion/SEX Cult' that targets many better known belief systems. The Church of the SubGenius teaches a complex belief system that focuses on the clip-art Deity, J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, and shines the light upon A Global Conspiracy bent on stealing your Slack. Of course, what 'religion'/Cult would be complete without UFO's, ..tons of SEX and a grand Armageddon scenario.  More: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius#Deities)

"BOB" Dobbs in the Media

• The Church of the SubGenius has been featured in: Playboy, WIRED (http://archive.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/07/13466), Rolling Stone, and preformed hundreds of successful Live Night Club Shows. "BOB" even has Nationally Distributed Video ARISE (Polygram). Not to mention "BOB" is endorsed by most major Counterculture Heroes and Subculture artists.
• The Band 'SUBLIME' ⁽¹⁾, shipped a 23 track '40 OZ OUNCES TO FREEDOM' CD through Skunk Records - with a Dobbshead on it.
• The Band 'DEVO' ⁽²⁾ is SubGenius as fuck! (see below)
• Negativland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EseXUufowr8): You may have never heard of Negativland, but you've probably heard clips of their stuff as bumper music on late night programs such as Ground Zero w/Clyde Lewis (http://www.groundzeromedia.org/).

Famous SubGenii include:

• Robert Anton Wilson⁽³⁾: "Pope BOB" was an ordained minister in the Church of the SubGenius, wrote for and was featured in the Three Fisted Tales of "BOB" (http://www.amazon.com/Three-Fisted-Tales-Bob-Ivan-Stang/dp/0671671901) book, and also featured "BOB" in The Illumanatus Trilogy (http://www.amazon.com/Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Golden-Leviathan/dp/0440539811/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408389277&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=illumanatus+trilogy); one of the many books he authored himself.
• Patrick Volkerding⁽⁴⁾ of Slackware Linux: 'Slackware' -duh
• Timothy Leary,
• Ken Kesey,
• PeeWee Herman (click for image (http://dobbscoin.info/images/peewee-bobdobbs.jpg)),
• Wierd Al,
• R. Crumb (https://www.google.com/search?q=r+crumb+subgenius&client=firefox-a&hs=zcd&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=rYi9U__CONO0yATiuIEQ&ved=0CCwQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=882) (Subculture Comics: Fritz the Cat/WEIRDO), drew & wrote for "BOB".
• Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller IS a PAID Minister/Member of The Church of the SubGenius.
• Jello Biafra to name just a few

More about Famous SubGenius (http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/trivia/X0009_CELEB.TXT.html)

The Church of the SubGenius even has three weekly Syndicated Radio Shows, in 15 Markets.
WCSB (http://www.wcsb.org) Cleveland, WREK (http://www.wrek.org) Atlanta & KPFA (https://www.kpfa.org) Berkeley, Ca, as well as countless of minor broadcast networks.

The Atari - ST ⁽⁵⁾
At the time the Atari ST started shipping, a limited set of GEM fonts were included within the ROMs. These fonts featured the standard 8x8 pixel graphical character set for the ST (the main in-ROM "font" for GEM, and text-mode TOS operations in color modes) and contains a recognizable facsimile of the face of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, (the figurehead of the Church of the Subgenius).

The FACT is.. (BOB) DobbsCoin is about Slack,
It's about FIGHTING The Conspiracy, and it's about getting BACK what THEY Stole away.
And if we just so happen to 'Survive The Great Cataclysms Through UFO Transport, while taking control through liberated weirdness by tapping our secret 'Abnormality Potential. ..then FUCK YES, I'll have TWO.

---

⁽¹⁾: 40 OZ OUNCES TO FREEDOM' CD initially/ltd. released with a Dobbshead on it. (no shit)(link1 (http://dobbscoin.info/images/sublime1.jpg)) (link2 (http://dobbscoin.info/images/sublime2.jpg)) (link3 (http://dobbscoin.info/images/sublime3.jpg)).
⁽²⁾: Devo actively embraced the Church of the SubGenius in concert (source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo)). Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO produced the audio for The Bobacatto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5wR8odaQfo), and you can watch him HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoAle6X4EJA) speaking on The Conspiracy, the life-changing power of "BOB" and Slack. (source: ARISE The SubGenius Movie : Polygram Video).
⁽³⁾: Wilson also joined the Church of the SubGenius, who referred to him as Pope Bob. He contributed to their literature, including the book Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob", and shared a stage with their founder, Rev. Ivan Stang on several occasions Winterstar-01 (http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/Winterstar-01/winterstar-01.html) & Austin, TX (http://subgenius.com/bigfist/pics13/RAW/index.html). Wilson also founded the Guns and Dope Party, and its corresponding Burning Man theme camp. See also: Historia Discordia (http://historiadiscordia.com/page/5)
⁽⁴⁾: Patrick Volkerding, the software engineer known as the founder and maintainer of Slackware Linux distro, is a SubGenius. The use of the word Slack in "Slackware" is a homage to J. R. "Bob" Dobbs: "I'll admit that it was SubGenius inspired. In fact, back in the 2.0 through 3.0 days we used to print a dobbshead on each CD. (https://www.soldierx.com/category/Tags/Linux)" -Patrick Volkerding.
⁽⁵⁾Atari ST: Atari ST BASIC had a dobbshead easter egg (image (http://dobbscoin.info/images/ST_BASIC_-_J.R._Bob_Dobbs.gif))

LiquidCoin is dead.

Cryptographic Anomaly(CGA)
Quote
observed with market cap 3118 on May 17 2014 down from 37760 on April 26 2014.


LOL wut? The main market for this coin is frozen. If one guy sells ten cents of CGA for a shitty price the coin is dead? You are going to have to remove from the list in a couple days.

Updates: 

Speedcoin, blitzcoin, coin2.0, emoticoin, and emucoin appear to have stopped trading, so I added them to the list or updated their existing entries.  Several new to the "dead" list had market cap higher than $5K at their last trade.

Ghostcoin, Highfivecoin, Parallaxcoin, and Suncoin all dropped below $5K market cap so I added them to the list as well.

Ninety days, minimum.  :-)  It looks like it had a market cap below US$5K from May 16 to May 23.  If it stays above $5K until August 23, I'll decide it's probably not just a fluke recovery. 

Added.  Thanks for the report.

LOL :D

Subbed.

And the undisputed winner is... coingen.

Two apparent IPO scams: EVO and AEC.

I'll go have a look at 'em. 

But it may be a day before I get to it; I've been working on this for the last three hours at this point and I'm tired of it for right now. 

Today I went trolling through many pages of old altcoin announcements, looking for alts that had been launched.  I tried to avoid putting things on the list that were just jokes, or where the launch didn't actually happen, or those which were just preannouncements.  Then I went and filtered out those that have a current market cap indicating not-dead, then I added the ones that weren't already on the list.  This probably amounted to 40 to 60 altcoins new to the list, which were quietly sitting there dead when I started keeping track.

There is a significant chance I made mistakes.  People should check the work and see if there's anything false, or anything listed twice, or etc. 

Could make 2 sections;

not so alive

proof of death

 

Thats when the market was frozen. Trust me I would have bought a lot if the market cap really dipped that low but it wasn't trading.

Extensive list. I've been burned by a couple of those coins. But on the flip side, there are several I saw in your list that do still have active markets. Maybe nothing on the order of Doge, Dark, or anything like that, but market activity nonetheless.

If all the information about altcoins was in a wiki format...  THAT would useful.

Aye, is there a crypto wiki somewhere that would host that, and then just put a link to it here? That would be a handier format.

Today added Hobbitcoin, Savecoin, Universitycoin, and Zenithcoin.

I never knew there was a Hobbitcoin... probably just as well, I would have bought in just because I'm a Tolkien fan and regretted it later.

Hmmmm.... you know, there really ought to be a coin named mithril. But a good quality one, for crying out loud. Make it good, with a low coin supply and anonymity and an upscale marketing plan and a legion of Tolkien fans won't be able to resist pushing it to the moon.

There is a MiddleEarthCoin now, a SHA256 clone "Forged in the Mount Doom"  ::)
http://www.middleearthcoin.com/
.. but I think it lacks class..

According to Tolkien Gateway (http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Money) the monetary unit
used in Gondor was castar, but the Sindarin equivalent,
mirian, derived from mîr, "jewel" sounds better.

But I guess we're wandering off-topic even though the name of
this thread has affinity with fantasy literature.

No wonder you're fond of Tolkien literature :D LOVEcoin's logo is a ring....

One ring to rule them all? ;) :) ;) :)

That ring is a leftover from the coin's shadowy past..
The official new logo is this:
http://lovecoins.info/images/love-logo-header.png

But yeah I'm a big fan of Tolkien, I read the trilogy regularly every
5 years or so.

OMG I had no idea that we have so many dead coins right now I even haven't heard of :D

today added

Beatlecoin, Birdcoin, Bumbacoin, Crapcoin, Electron, Fitcoin, Givecoin, Granitecoin, Guncoin, Leadcoin, LimecoinLite, Paycoin, Ratcoin, Saffroncoin, Sapphirecoin, Securecoin, Serracoin, and TheSmurfsCoin.  And I think that does it for today's currently-trading coins whose values have fallen under $5K.  

TheSmurfscoin is currently trading with a market cap of $3221.  I have to wonder whether it will last until the Cease & Desist order arrives.  

What possesses a developer to give something a name that he knows can never succeed?  If TheSmurfsCoin were to become popular enough to attract the attention of the powers-that-be, of course there'd be a C&D, so it can't possibly succeed under that name.  Of course I wondered the same thing about Cuntcoin and a few others.  

Bitslap, it hasn't even been launched LMAO

     (BOB) Dobbscoin is the Officially Approved crypto-currency of the Church of the SubGenius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius), a TWENTY+ Year old UFO 'parody religion/SEX Cult' that targets many better known belief systems. The Church of the SubGenius teaches a complex belief system that focuses on the clip-art Deity, J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, and shines the light upon A Global Conspiracy bent on stealing your Slack. Of course, what 'religion'/Cult would be complete without UFO's, ..tons of SEX and a grand Armageddon scenario.  More: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius#Deities)

"BOB" Dobbs in the Media

• The Church of the SubGenius has been featured in: Playboy, WIRED (http://archive.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/07/13466), Rolling Stone, and preformed hundreds of successful Live Night Club Shows. "BOB" even has Nationally Distributed Video ARISE (Polygram). Not to mention "BOB" is endorsed by most major Counterculture Heroes and Subculture artists.
• The Band 'SUBLIME' ⁽¹⁾, shipped a 23 track '40 OZ OUNCES TO FREEDOM' CD through Skunk Records - with a Dobbshead on it.
• The Band 'DEVO' ⁽²⁾ is SubGenius as fuck! (see below)
• Negativland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EseXUufowr8): You may have never heard of Negativland, but you've probably heard clips of their stuff as bumper music on late night programs such as Ground Zero w/Clyde Lewis (http://www.groundzeromedia.org/).

Famous SubGenii include:

• Robert Anton Wilson⁽³⁾: "Pope BOB" was an ordained minister in the Church of the SubGenius, wrote for and was featured in the Three Fisted Tales of "BOB" (http://www.amazon.com/Three-Fisted-Tales-Bob-Ivan-Stang/dp/0671671901) book, and also featured "BOB" in The Illumanatus Trilogy (http://www.amazon.com/Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Golden-Leviathan/dp/0440539811/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408389277&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=illumanatus+trilogy); one of the many books he authored himself.
• Patrick Volkerding⁽⁴⁾ of Slackware Linux: 'Slackware' -duh
• Timothy Leary,
• Ken Kesey,
• PeeWee Herman (click for image (http://dobbscoin.info/images/peewee-bobdobbs.jpg)),
• Wierd Al,
• R. Crumb (https://www.google.com/search?q=r+crumb+subgenius&client=firefox-a&hs=zcd&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=rYi9U__CONO0yATiuIEQ&ved=0CCwQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=882) (Subculture Comics: Fritz the Cat/WEIRDO), drew & wrote for "BOB".
• Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller IS a PAID Minister/Member of The Church of the SubGenius.
• Jello Biafra to name just a few

More about Famous SubGenius (http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/trivia/X0009_CELEB.TXT.html)

The Church of the SubGenius even has three weekly Syndicated Radio Shows, in 15 Markets.
WCSB (http://www.wcsb.org) Cleveland, WREK (http://www.wrek.org) Atlanta & KPFA (https://www.kpfa.org) Berkeley, Ca, as well as countless of minor broadcast networks.

The Atari - ST ⁽⁵⁾
At the time the Atari ST started shipping, a limited set of GEM fonts were included within the ROMs. These fonts featured the standard 8x8 pixel graphical character set for the ST (the main in-ROM "font" for GEM, and text-mode TOS operations in color modes) and contains a recognizable facsimile of the face of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, (the figurehead of the Church of the Subgenius).

The FACT is.. (BOB) DobbsCoin is about Slack,
It's about FIGHTING The Conspiracy, and it's about getting BACK what THEY Stole away.
And if we just so happen to 'Survive The Great Cataclysms Through UFO Transport, while taking control through liberated weirdness by tapping our secret 'Abnormality Potential. ..then FUCK YES, I'll have TWO.

---

⁽¹⁾: 40 OZ OUNCES TO FREEDOM' CD initially/ltd. released with a Dobbshead on it. (no shit)(link1 (http://dobbscoin.info/images/sublime1.jpg)) (link2 (http://dobbscoin.info/images/sublime2.jpg)) (link3 (http://dobbscoin.info/images/sublime3.jpg)).
⁽²⁾: Devo actively embraced the Church of the SubGenius in concert (source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo)). Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO produced the audio for The Bobacatto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5wR8odaQfo), and you can watch him HERE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoAle6X4EJA) speaking on The Conspiracy, the life-changing power of "BOB" and Slack. (source: ARISE The SubGenius Movie : Polygram Video).
⁽³⁾: Wilson also joined the Church of the SubGenius, who referred to him as Pope Bob. He contributed to their literature, including the book Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob", and shared a stage with their founder, Rev. Ivan Stang on several occasions Winterstar-01 (http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fun/devivals/Winterstar-01/winterstar-01.html) & Austin, TX (http://subgenius.com/bigfist/pics13/RAW/index.html). Wilson also founded the Guns and Dope Party, and its corresponding Burning Man theme camp. See also: Historia Discordia (http://historiadiscordia.com/page/5)
⁽⁴⁾: Patrick Volkerding, the software engineer known as the founder and maintainer of Slackware Linux distro, is a SubGenius. The use of the word Slack in "Slackware" is a homage to J. R. "Bob" Dobbs: "I'll admit that it was SubGenius inspired. In fact, back in the 2.0 through 3.0 days we used to print a dobbshead on each CD. (https://www.soldierx.com/category/Tags/Linux)" -Patrick Volkerding.
⁽⁵⁾Atari ST: Atari ST BASIC had a dobbshead easter egg (image (http://dobbscoin.info/images/ST_BASIC_-_J.R._Bob_Dobbs.gif))

In other news, Hobbitcoin appears to be on a pump.  It has risen %2540 in four days. 

Just three days ago you added that coin to your dead list. I think maybe you are a bit too quick to add coins.

Heh.  True, some get on a bit early due to random fluctuation. 

But seriously, do you think *anything* on this list isn't on a one-way trip to the trashcan?

The $5K mark is there mainly so I don't miss them before they're gone.   And, well, because anything which has fallen that far is not really all that likely to recover. 

I expect Hobbitcoin to come bouncing back down -- and if it doesn't, I'll take it off of there eventually.

UVC is alive and well. It has almost 1 BTC of action in the past 24 hours on Bittrex.

Oh, come on.  "has traded above a market cap of $5K for one hour out of the last week" is not nearly the same as "alive and well."  Why did you get me to waste my time going and looking at that?  Heck, why did I fall for it?

If something isn't just circling the drain, it can stay above the mark for 90 days.  If it hasn't, it's not coming off the list.  These are the ground rules here: If I was taking crap off and putting it back on every time it transited the line I'd be spending my whole life on this. 

Your Still Full of Shit dude, POP is not a Coingen Coin, haha

Please fellow BTCTalk users,

Keep the holy wars to religions and such. This list has some rules to it, and it must be considered for some coins as a lesson to learn and for others as a call to action. If your market cap is below $5K you're in trouble. Stop talking shit here and go get some action going on your preferred coin. No need to insult OP or start flame wars.

The guy of popcoin, please, stop posting annoying hyper-large fonts posts. It annoys people and reporting it gets it removed asap, no need to have that mark on your history here.

Ok then, I actually know what respect is.

Then Please tell this dude to modify the bullshit statement that POP is a Coingen Coin, wouldn't you be pissed if you and a team worked on a code and some dbag came along and said it was a coingen?

It should be [Size=1093274983752394057x12454365pt]

And you can call me JET, I am soaking up the coins right now and about to take a run for it once we modify the code here pretty soon. OP insulted POP more than I could have ever insulted him. Get it?

Don't you think a polite PM asking for the tag removal would've sufficed?

Btw, sorry for not calling you by name, i was being lazy and didn't want to push the back button ;)

The only reason I went and got the coingen list in the first place was because it was one of relatively few lists of cryptocurrencies that wasn't getting erased as the cryptocurrencies died.  I figured if I didn't look at the coingen list, I was going to miss several. 

A developer works with a codebase, and whether or not he just downloads one and does the rebranding himself, or spends a few bucks to get coingen to do that first little bit of the work, doesn't make any difference.  It's what happens after that (if anything) that makes it a non-clone.

Anyway, it seems like a lot of people are reading a hell of a lot more into a note that something was started at coingen than that note actually says.  I don't know what it means to them, but when we get a situation where someone who actually paid them the money for a codebase then claims he didn't, or wants it known that he wasted his money and what he eventually developed wasn't derived from that purchased codebase, I'm just baffled.  It doesn't matter what you start with, it matters what you end up with. 

Also I keep hearing things like "It couldn't possibly be a coingen coin because the distribution function doesn't work like coingen's!"  And I'm thinking, duh, lots of cryptocurrencies' distribution functions don't work like the distribution functions in the code they were based on.  That's what developers do, they change code.  If you're working from some kind of assumption that because coingen was ever involved, then the code downloaded from them is unalterable, you're failing to comprehend what code is in some profound way.  That's completely not the way it works. 

So anyway, I want to ask; what the heck does coingen-generated mean to you all?  'Cause if most of you are thinking wrongly that it means nothing else was ever done to the code or that no further modifications could have been made?  Then I shouldn't be putting it there in the first place because even though it says nothing of the kind, people are reading it in a way that's misleading them. 

You can remove Cannacoin.  Market cap steadily growing and we are now on Bittrex.  Head to  #cannacoin on Freenode IRC and see for yourself our quickly growing community.

Our developer is full-time.  Thanks.

https://coinmarketcap.com/ccn_180.html

https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-CCN

https://www.swisscex.com/market/CCN_BTC

http://www.nwgt.org/forumdisplay.php?122-Cannacoin-General-Discussion

http://www.nwgt.org/showthread.php?20277-NWGT-graphics-and-logo-designs

I guess we have different definitions of the word "dead."

a list we can be proud of

Hey, I just realized the list has Pesetacoin on it still. Pesetacoin has a market cap well over $100,000 and is active (more or less) at Bittrex along with other exchanges. I don't think it fits any of the criteria to be on this list (it never dropped below $100K, much less $5K).

Down by 90% from its high, but yes, you're right. 

Hmm.  I'll go look at notes and see if I can figure out what went wrong.

Are there two different cryptocurrencies both using the name Aircoin and the ticker AIR?

I'm seeing it with market cap $40526 on cryptocoinrank and at the same time with market cap $5559 on coinmarketcap.

Same thing with AIMcoin, ticker AIM.  on cryptocoinrank it has market cap $58823 and on coinmarketcap it's $13418. 

If they're talking about the same things, there must be a terrifyingly inefficient market somewhere.... 

I offer sincere thanks, Cryddit. This is an impressive piece of scholarship.

Mark Blair, Unicup, Western Australia

please add flappy - network is close to dead
also pandacoin is dead.

hmmmmm, I am starting to send a trend.  hahahaha

I've been watching flappy circling the drain. 

Which pandacoin are you talking about?  50Cent_rapper's original (PAND), Wolong's/Sevoque's (PANDA), or Slaithe's (PND)?

Pandacoin is kind of a screwy situation given that there are three of them.  50Cent_rapper's appears to be a sincere effort.  Wolong's appears to be a market-manipulation scam.  And Slaithe's appears to be a reaction to Wolong's scamming attempt. 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=399127.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=460037.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=464476.0

In the long run everyone is dead. 

This thread requires an additional circling the bowl one last time list.

There is so many... just wow. People get creative when it comes to naming tho

Today added coiled coin (a merge mined coin that went down due to a 51% attack launched by Eligius Pool) , Ixcoin, and SolidCoin (which I haven't researched any good information about yet).  

So is Digibyte a typo or something? $300k market cap.

"Or something."  It was off the exchanges for a week or so a little while back, and I added it.  Mistakenly as it turns out; it came back.  Fixed now.  Thanks for the heads up.

Thats Better, Thank You

You Could Mention that Popular Coins Code is truly based off MegaCoin, and clarify that it is not a modified coingen, we just ran it through coingen to see what the entire package would look like,..

On Any Occasion, POP Still Has a Pulse

I'm guessing Globecoin? I haven't heard much about that one since it came out. Coinye, too, possibly.

(Wait, that's already listed.)

Haven't really heard much from Karma Coin, or Bee Coin.

ARGH!  It WIGGLES!!  Either you stop adding that stupid graphic to your posts or you get a spot on my ignore list. 

UniversityCoin's still not dead.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=590681.msg7333753#msg7333753

I don't own any but I just wanted your list to better reflect reality.

Thank you.

okay....  Some of the added coins are old issues I've just found out about, and some of them are current issues whose value is dropping toward zero. 

Added:  Alphacoin (ALF), Applebyte (ABY), Bitland(?), Blakebitcoin(BBTC), BTCtalkcoin(BCC), Cagecoin(CAGE), Citizencoin(CTZ), Conspiracycoin(CYC), Cypherfunk(FUNK), Dishercoin(?), EmbargoCoin(EBG), Failcoin(FAIL), Genecoin(?), Globe(GLB), Heisenberg(HEX), Horsecoin(HORS), Kumacoin(KUMA), LimecoinX(LIMX), Litecoinplus(XLC), Litecoinx(LTCX), Lottery Tickets(TIX), Megcoin(MEG), Mjollnircoin(MNR), Networkcoin(NWC), Protoshares(PTS), Quora(QUORA), Thebotcoin(TBN), Topcoin(TOP), UnitedScryptcoin(USC), Wincoin(WIN), XXLcoin(XXL), Yamashitacoin(YMC).

Also, I removed some, in the course of reconciling my list with the one posted here:  Some of these are coins where I hadn't saved a specific, dated, observation of low market cap and had seen them trading on at least a few occasions with higher market cap.  Some are cryptocurrencies I added to the list when they were withdrawn from exchanges, but they are now back on exchanges. 

Removed Battlecoin (BCX), Benjamins (BEN), Bitbar (BTB), Dimecoin(DIME), Earthcoin(EAC), Emoticoin(EMO), Nybble(NBL), Solarcoin(SLR), Spots(SPT), Tekcoin(TEK).

Universitycoin will remain on the list until it convinces me it isn't just drain circling, ie, until it has spent at least 90 days trading above market cap $5K.  If it doesn't fail, that will occur no sooner than 29 August. 

Good work my brother.

Today added Forexcoin, PHcoin, Bitquark, Wavecoin, Magicoin, Huskycoin, qubitcoin, groincoin, compasscoin, capitalcoin, and Globalboost.

Any recent updates? We seem to be in the summer doldrums for even quality alts judging from pricing, so I have to believe the die-off is continuing.

most of them are abortion or miscarriages more than deadcoins. but anyway thanks for updating the list.

AppleByte is hardly dead, the coin has only been live a little over two months and has a user community of 1950+ on twitter & 1300+ on FB.

And here is todays market cap:

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datacoin is not 'dead'. Network is still intact aswell as community and developement is ongoing. It is just traded on low marketcap currently which can change any day. So: low price, yes. All other indicators, no.
Actually a huge opportunity since it is one of the very few coins that has practical use (like nmc) - decentralized datastorage. Pretty sure there will be demand later for its practical applications.

Anything which isn't dying can stay above $5K for 90 days. 

Until then, all I can tell you is, best of luck!

Cryddit

which is the case for dtc. currently 20k after 6 months decline. Only that fact it is not pumped and dumped doesn't make it dead.  
I see healthy network, active dev and community. So yeah. DTC has potential for many thousand percent roi, i'll admit that.

OMFG PEOPLE!!!

Just fucking read the OP COMPLETELY before posting and arguing "my favorite coin isn't dead"...

And go out and put your wallet where your mouth is, create BUY support for your favorite coin and DON'T FUCKING SELL FOR CHEAP.

Great thread!  :) This should be a sticky.

what are you on about? DTC is currently traded on bter (always has been), it is also on comkort and it is traded 90 days above 50k$ (ten times more than required) . Buysupport is there.

OMG make your fuckin research before going "OMG fucking" in the thread

DTC is not dead and i don't see any reason for it to be listed there yet. Meeting all requirements not to be on the list. In fact it fulfilled at no point the requirements for being dead. So i don't see how it was included in the list in the first place.
Only because you were not able to figure out it is active on bter and were also not able to find the thread which is still active doesn't make it dead OMFG!!!1

you are going to see me and some other smart investors  make obscene amounts of money with DTC because there will be real demand for its practical applications in the future. Further than that there is a whale buying and buying and buying. He holds so many coins right now and he knows the true value. Freaking DTC will blow the rooftop off. So take it off the list. It shouldn't be on it.

lel, that guy

wow, great work. did not find lottocoin in the list.

Exactly. OP has defined "dead" clearly as the following.

right. so dtc is not dead

Datacoin and philosopherstone removed; they were on there by mistake apparently.  Added a bunch of other things, mostly new cryptocurrencies that got onto exchanges via a bribe instead of via being valuable enough to be good for  the exchange's business.

Regarding Lottocoin, during the period I've been tracking it I've observed market capitalization ranging from 23454 today to 90279 at about this time last month.  So, yes, it's lost 75% of its value approximately, but no, it isn't yet dead, even by the criterion I've been using.

This was an enjoyable thread. Gotta love memory lane it has been an interesting year. Didn't see nuggets on the list. :-)~
/summon vlad for rant.

HTMLcoin(HTML) changing to x11 still trading.   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=507215.msg8531647#msg8531647

hi all ...

just wanted to ask why granitecoin (grn) is listed as dead ... ?

its alive and well - though a great deal has happened since all the FUD that was trying to dismember it was dished out ...

its slow moving and ive taken over the management/ownership of the coin - but i dont see how a coin can be considered 'dead' if its continuing to be mined and traded ...

i have setup block explorers - so that blocks can be seen and a 'richlist' with stats to show what is happening ... which includes details of the bonus blocks and all thats happening with the network and payouts - which was a cause for (false)alarm a while back ...

a change of logo and graphics - with change of backend to the wallet and a new website is coming ... as soon as i can organize a good dev to redevelop with me ...

improvement is always moving along and since my takeover - i have no intention to stop it ...

so please take grn off the 'dead' list ...

if the blockchain is still functional and the coin is still being mined and traded - then i would think that any coin in that situation is still alive no matter how small or large the network hashrate ...

for those that are still interested - the following links show what is happening and what is being updated ...

im slow - but steady ... grn is very much alive - and if i have anything to do with it - will be around for quite a while yet :)

links -

new bitcointalk thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=718939 ...
block explorer - http://cryptobe.com/chain/GraniteCoin/ ...
block explorer with richlist and stats - http://grn.blockexplorer.cc/richlist/ ...
twitter feed - https://twitter.com/chrysophylax69/ ...
mining pools - coinking ( https://coinking.io/ at port 6675 ) ... dedicatedpool ( http://grn.v2.dedicatedpool.com/ at port 8009 ) ... zpool ( http://www.zpool.co/pool/grn/x11/ at port 3029 ) ...
exchange - https://bleutrade.com/exchange/GRN/BTC/ ...
voting for exchange induction - cc-ex ( https://c-cex.com/?id=vote ) ... askcoin ( https://askcoin.net/votes/ ) ... coins-e ( https://www.coins-e.com/voting/ ) ...

im working hard to get things back on track here ... im still looking for a good dev to work with me to implement new ideas and redevelop - so support wuld be much appreciated ...

if there is anything that anyone would like to see - i would be more than happy to accommodate in any way i can ... especially to take on any thoughts or ideas the public has to improve the coin ...

tanx guys - your help would be very much appreciated ...

btw - i REALLY like what you have done here ... what a great idea ... im thinking maybe an addition to supliment would be a sublist of coins that are in development ( or re-development ) ... granitecoin would be a candidate on that one ... :)

crysx

Your list did not contain: LTC, DRK, or NXT.

Erroneous.

Seems you miss FRSC (federal reserve system coin) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392043.0

Platinumcoin isnt  coingen or dead. maybe the copycat scrypt version who came out after was , but PT is not coingen , and we are about to hit 1 million transactions since January..
If it dies then whatever, but its not a coingen, and there was no premine or ico.
thanks.

bro, just list the 10 active coins instead of 2000 vapourcoins - isn't that much hassle.

Wow, this list helps so much.  I can't believe (well, maybe I can) there are so many coins that just died.  It's crazy to see them in list format like this.

dead coins, if they end up here, they will probably die (some aren't dead yet though...)... my personal cemetery
http://s14.postimg.org/4k60xkq6p/wallet.png

i am sure there is a whole bunch of new coins to be added

like novacoin dark or selfiecoin

TittieCoin is not dead! It has an active community, decent network and it's been actively traded for the past 4 weeks now.

It's true it was less active for a while but it's never been abandonded.

Please remove it from op.

HKC is still officially trading at 1 sat per HKC on rockytrade.net (https://rockytrade.net/index.php?page=trade&market=129).

and is accepted as a payment option at bidcoind.com (http://www.bidcoind.com/auction_details.php?name=buy-10000-satoshi-with-hkc&auction_id=100672).

so technically it is inactive but not dead.

better be prepared for a zombie attack...
#hkcnotdead

Kudos to Cryddit. This thread is a great resource.

Mark (IndiaMikeZulu), Australia

and still granitecoin ( grn ) is still listed as dead? ...

bct home - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=718939.0;all ...
traded - https://bleutrade.com/exchange/GRN/BTC/ ...
twitter - https://twitter.com/chrysophylax69/ ...

mined in 3 pools at the moment with our own pool about to be made public - all in the OP of the bct site ...
website almost completed ...

im from australia also ... :)

#crysx

 :o you should send them to the crematorium ;D

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=695063.0
Payzor - coin ,nice name but failed coin

Brother, Just for the Record,

PopularCoin (POP) was originally launched as POPCoin POP Aka PopularCoin, it was a thoughtful decision to use both Popcoin and Popularcoin as we had the ticker POP.

Total POP market Cap right now = 62 bitcoin approximately 14k$

And POP has an entire Market on Cryptopia https://www.cryptopia.co.nz

And to be 100% correct, when I ran "Popcoin" through coingen to see what the code would look like, it was only 5 bucks and we did not use that code. We later put the code together for POP from a completely different code base. Based directly off litecoin, as you can see if you follow the source code all the way back to its origin.

20 Connections and the wallet isnt even POS,..

Definitely never died.

Thanks,

Hey, do me a favor, fire up your trollcoin wallet (you might have to DL v1.4 to sync, then send all your trolls to Bleutrade and dump ASAP, I'll make sure you get a couple doge for your stash, thanks!

Is it still on an exchange?

Cryptopia is a low volume startup, trollcoin is on there too, you never know, the exchange could take off. They have a nice idea going. Volume is next to nothing ATM tho.

why NXT ? It still exists.

Those are top volume coins, the opposite of a dead coin...

Damn troll

Are there are any fair launch, no-premine Sha coins on this list?
I don't have time to look them all up.

Is there any active SHA coin besides BTC? Doubt it.

I'm only aware of Peercoin.

If Bter does not reopen withdrawals there will be a few more dead coins. Some are only trade-able on Bter.

A coin that is only on one exchange and can't get on others is (very close to) dead anyway.

Which coins?  ???

There was the kw coin, cant find it on the list.

UNO.

This article PROVES Trollcoin is dead, we demand an update to the OP to list us as a DEAD coin, or at least a "no-one-cares-coin"
Thank you for your glorious list of awesomeness!

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/hate-altcoins-maybe-bitcoin-just-isnt/

There was another coin besides the World Football Coin on your list called simply football coin.

These are it's threads, although it seems it never made it onto an exchange.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=630618.msg7018951#msg7018951

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=636046.0

Please save some space on the OP for Paycoin (XPY). Once the alphabet agencies are done with it, it'll be one helluva post-mortem writeup.

You can add ILT (Intellectcoin), Ethancoin, WWC(Worldwildcoin). But i think HTML/HTML5 is pretty much alive and Failcoin is just reborn from the ash.

Add Cryptoshekel (SHKL).
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=394123.0

SeedCoin

GoldCoin (GLD) has one of the most active communities of any altcoin and is under constant development. It's never been dead. lol

NeutrinoCoin

Is there a way to relaunch this thread ?
I would like to update it with the help of some people. It is not my original idea, here are the details (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1701259.msg17061754#msg17061754).
Today, the increasing number of new Alts makes it difficult for the users to find reliable informations on the forum because of all the events happening at the same time, that's why it would be great if the community to relaunch this project i think.

You are right. Especially, in trading, one can barely find any information (if not at all) about new altcoins. There are a lot of altcoins being traded or being announced every single day and keep tracking those altcoins can sometimes get frustrating and exhausting. Relaunching this project would be really useful.

You can open a new thread,this thread is more than two years old,I don't mean outdated but there must be new information added,so many coins are being added daily it is now time to differentiate all existing and dead coin to help not only newbies but long time member also .

There is aleready a new thread, but it seems dead too, and the relaunch idea is not from me. Have a look here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1701259.msg17061754#msg17061754). I wouldl ike to do it, but i don't have much time and this kind of thread must be updated constantly, and needs at least 3 or 4 members who will fetch the news. It may even require a whole website, this would be a nice project.

Keeping up with this would have been a full time job.


Cool idea though

Yes, we need a reaper to take care of the necronomicon, any one interested ? it won't be a paid job, but at least you will keep people informed of the latest coins informations. A lot of people there went trapped in a project because they ignored it was actually dead.

Has anyone ever seen a dead coin get resurrected to become a successful coin... or at least have its market capitalization exceed $100,000?

It happens all the time.

I have seen dead coins with market caps less than $50,000 , suddenly exceed $2,000,000

Sadly, I missed all these opportunities

Just wanted to make sure you all know TrollCoin is dead right now, or "making a killing" shit, im in the wrong thread!

Oh, credit to Cryddit. The original list is a fine piece of scholarship. Best I've ever seen.

Slimcoin :D It was almost dead in late 2016, when it was delisted from all exchanges and for some days, nearly all mining stopped and blocks took hours to produce (in a coin that has a 90 second block time), so it was perhaps not totally dead but surely agonizing. Now, after development has been resumed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1141676) it has a market cap of approximately 200.000-300.000 $, with peaks up to 800.000$ (Proof: Coinmarketcap (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/slimcoin/).)

I have several wallets with some of these dead coins, if someone wants to buy them I can make a bargain ;)

I've kept some dead wallets as souvenirs throughout the years. Fun shit. A few times a "dead" coin has suddenly come back to life and surprised me with a nice little bonus $ lol, you never know I guess

Incakoin is far from dead.

That's what cloakcoin did.Rise from the dead

these names are awefull... nice list though, I still see BEER on coinexchange

2017 is a great year for cryptocurrency development - so many exciting projects appear that it’s difficult to keep track of them all. Recently, we wrote about some altcoin contenders. Now, let’s take a closer look at the five most promising newcomers whose positions are growing fast.

Wings [WINGS]
One of the first cryptocurrencies to appear this year was Wings. From January to June its popularity jumped up and down and has recently stabilized at a market capitalization of $56 mln.

Based in Switzerland, Wings provides the necessary tools for the creation and promotion of decentralized projects. They use smart contracts and forecast markets to evaluate projects.

Gnosis [GNO]
Next up is the well-known Gnosis. They started in February and soon reached high levels of demand, but have backtracked a bit since May. The coin has now settled at a market cap of around $295 mln.

Its “crowdsourced wisdom” platform enables anyone to speculate on any future events and get rewards for accurate predictions. Gnosis also provides its own platform for the creation of DApps.

Zcash [ZEC]
In the middle of the chart, we have Zcash with a $378 mln market cap. The cryptocurrency first showed up in October 2016, but its popularity has never been quite high until March 2017.

Zcash is the first open and permissionless financial system operating under zero-knowledge cryptography. It uses a special zk-SNARK proof which allows the network to support a secure ledger of balances without revealing any parties.

Zcash encrypts the payment information and uses a novel cryptographic method to verify their validity. According to the developers, that approach allows all involved parties to send completely anonymous transactions.

Golem [GNT]
The second spot goes to another March-born cryptocurrency Golem, which has reached a $400 mln market cap. On March 20 it became the 13th most valuable digital currency and its popularity has leveled in April.

Golem’s crowdfunding event became the second fastest in crypto history - $8,600,000 in 29 minutes. Golem plans to become a huge global network, extremely powerful and 100 percent open sourced. It can also help with computationally intensive cryptography work.

Stratis [STRAT]
And finally, our gold medal goes to Stratis. This cryptocurrency became one of April’s top contenders immediately after hitting the markets. In the last week of May, its market cap jumped up to $1.070 bln.

Stratis is currently one of the top 10 cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap. This powerful Blockchain development platform has a unique feature - it offers the ability to code native decentralized apps in C#. It opens up a number of possibilities for developers.

Moreover, Stratis allows organizations to create private Blockchains. They are realized in the form of sidechains, which are fully integrated with Stratis’ main Blockchain.

Road ahead
This short list offers a brief look into the current state of the cryptocurrency market. But the popularity of different cryptocurrencies is not a constant, and these ratings might change very soon. With the rest of the year still ahead of us, there is a lot of projects to look forward to. Let us know in the comments which cryptocurrencies you are cheering for!

^^ This post UP HERE ^^ should probably have a thread of its own. Not enough discussion on the better altcoins out there in the forum.

Good work and useful information. Certainly, some of the coins will always die for various reasons, the main of which is its notorious unfitness as a crypto currency. This must be treated as inevitable. However, the other part of such coins will find its worthy application and the whole of the crypto currency will only be strengthened and widely introduced into our hands

isn’t Cthulhu OFF just got an update? but looks like no updated nodes though :(

Amazing work by Cryddit for the list.
I have been trying to get stats on some of these coins and it is very time consuming.
I also am interested in the definition of dead.
As raised here it's very unlikely a dead coin is ever resurrected but it has happened.
So when can know it's dead?
It seems like the creator weighing in would be a material dimension to the discussion but in most cases that too is unlikely.

Please remove 'GraniteCoin'.

The name changed a couple of years ago and has been growing from strength to strength over the last couple of years.

We are in continual development, and are currently building the CWI-InfraStructure to cater for the future of the projects we have in which 'granite' (not 'GraniteCoin') is part thereof.

Thanks,

#crysx

Would anyone here be interested in working with me to try do something about this list?

Depends on what - but sure.

#crysx

Amazing list and well put together! The list is long and yet not exhaustive! I know there are more dead altcoin not cpture inyour list and in few months time, many altcoin will follow suit as a result if bitcoin price that seem not to be slowng down. What if there is documentation of dead token. What will it look like?

Great, thanks I'll pm you so we can speak.
In the meantime I am finding discovery a real challenge.
There doesn't seem to be somewhere that lists all coins with data on date, hashrate, markets etc.
I have been looking one by one.
I was thinking about using APIs but there is still a lot of data missing.
Any suggestions guys for profiling?

Blazecoin (BLZ) Market cap well above $5000 death threshold. Classed as living?

Maybe look for coins on CMC with no active markets? It would have to be no active markets for a length of time, like a couple months.

Cypherfunk (FUNK) not dead as of end of 2017.

I would love to see this updated with current coins.  This was really great to read over and see all the failures and look into why they failed.

Can any one help me revive Bat coin?

I accidentally bought this shit on cryptopia thinking it is bat.

Ben

Dogecoin's not dead but do you guys think it will die soon or in the future? One of its main features is the low fee costs and speed, I think some other altcoin will come along, if it not has already, and just be superior in every way.

I think a lot of the appeal for doge is its kind of cult status because of how it started.
It also gets used by pumpers often so I dont think its going to die soon.

I spent  lot of time on this thread and thinking about the idea of failed and dead coins.
In the end i decided to do something about it with my new project.
Disclaimer: I am doing an ICO for it.
I know a lot of people hate on ICOs and many are scams but this was the most effective route I saw to implement it.
so, point of this post:
Is not to promote my ICO but ask you guys for genuine feedback about the idea.
I am trying to do what i think makes sense and am open to any suggestions.
Thanks!
(link is in my signature, I don't want to appear too spammy lol)

You're not publishing your figures so its impossible to be specific. The idea's been tried several times, it falls at the first fence. Altcoin code is open source, is typically widely distributed and as designed, is highly resistant to being subject to the kind of centralised control that you seek to impose.

Cheers

Graham
 

Thanks Graham.

I'm not looking impose centralised control but a central gateway.
Obviously that's predicated on me being able to get control of projects, so I totally get your point.
I've been working on this for a while and based on the assumption that we can get some project owners to agree then the user part becomes easier.
I know it's a big assumption but our reaching bodes well so far.

btw what is he first fence in this example? Taking over the projects?

Gaining exclusive control over widely-distributed published open source software is a practical problem. I take it you have looked at BARR and Nexus as well as the other ill-conceived approaches that assume a purely monetary underpinning of what is actually a social phenomenon.

Cheers

Graham

I did have a look at them.
I have tried to adjust elements to make this more community oriented.
I appreciate your feedback and I understand now where you're coming from.
I don't want to hijack this thread so I'll shut up now but I look forward to updating here with results either way in the future.
Thanks!

Grandcoin [GDC] is definitely alive ! :) (and so cheap currently)

https://grandcoin.info
https://twitter.com/GrandcoinGDC
https://discordapp.com/invite/ZrdbSNZ


 

We have partnered with Deadcoins.com to be able to get a better view of the failed projects landscape.
This is a long term partnership which will also help users of the Deadcoins community to feed directly into CoinJanitor.
Here is the release of the partnership but watch this space for more info as it unfolds https://www.coinjanitor.io/news/coinjanitor-and-deadcoins-com-join-forces-to-clean-up-crypto/ (https://www.coinjanitor.io/news/coinjanitor-and-deadcoins-com-join-forces-to-clean-up-crypto/)

I suspect that unfortunately some of the altcoins that exist now can die before the end of 2018. I am talking about smaller coins that are unknown and that have no future. Take for instance, this one: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/encryptotel-eth/

Great work and valuable data. Surely, a portion of the coins will dependably bite the dust for different reasons, the primary of which is its infamous unfitness as a digital money. This must be dealt with as unavoidable. Be that as it may, the other piece of such coins will locate its commendable application and the entire of the digital money might be fortified and broadly brought into our hands

A chance to resurrect the dead. Buy 62 of the recovered Cryptsy coins: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4913271.0

EDIT: I'm shutting this topic down.  I gave up on keeping track of this ages ago, because it just got too depressing for me and besides I couldn't keep up.   

People keep sending me messages asking me to take things off the list insisting that so-and-so isn't dead.  If you have successfully revived something, congratulations.  But this list is now a historical artifact and I'm not keeping it up to date. Nor am I interested in debating what "dead" means in terms of a block chain coin.

Usually it turns out that they are just reusing the name of so-and-so, which is, yes, still dead.  Alternatively, they may have a live block chain of so-and-so which still does not appear on the significant exchanges, or which has still such an insignificant market value, that it is, yes, still dead.  And these points are just too tedious to debate and I don't even have time to research them all.

There are also messages I find particularly depressing, or which make me angry, and those are from people who are digging zombie so-and-so up for one more lurch around the gravestone, in a necromantic version of a pump and dump scam, using the fact that "so-and-so has been around a long time" to reassure their prospective bagholders.

Anyway:  To everybody reading this list:  These coins were what I considered dead, at the time I was maintaining the list.  Some of them may not have stayed dead, and that's okay.  Some of them may be in the hands of people now pretending they aren't dead, as part of a scam, and that's not okay.  I'm not going to help you decide which.

To everybody who has something that appears on this list and believes it isn't dead:  That's fine.  Maybe it isn't.  I am not updating the list, so consider this as information about its history, rather than information about its present.