Avoiding Coins Created With Coingen

[organizer]

Interesting read here:

http://cryptolife.net/avoiding-coins-created-with-coingen/

You see, coingen was created by one of the oldest bitcoin supporters and exists solely to discredit altcoins. Accordingly, every coin this site spits out has it’s difficulty scaling set the same as Bitcoin – 400% in either direction every 2 weeks. History has shown that this is a laughably bad idea, and that the difficulty will get stuck at some obscenely high value. This causes miners to jump ship and block generation to come to a standstill. At this point the coin is effectively dead, unless a patch is issued. Since all these coins lack a developer, no such patch will ever come. It is therefore inevitable that all coingen coins will be dead within a few days of launch.

Maybe this explains what happened to GFT, lol.

[bitwho]

gft , grumpy , aliencoin , crap coin , batcoin , reserved coin , lennycoin ...


okay i started this thinking that i would list at least 15 coins but i just went blank... well come back and edit.  

[Nullu]

What's the best way to detect if a coin came from coingen?

[digit]

very useful post, hopefully we can compile a list of the ones that appear and stop these scamcoins for good

[J.B.O]

What's the best way to detect if a coin came from coingen?

Stupid names

Edit: If you find it in this list: (Warning, it's scary) http://coingen.io/status.html

[Nullu]

What's the best way to detect if a coin came from coingen?

Stupid names

Not all coingen coins have stupid names. I want to avoid all coingen coins.

Edit: Nevermind, the link explains how to spot them.

[axxo]

Coins created with Coingen should be listed on the OP so everybody would know which coin to avoid.

[bitwho]

hmm. just checked with grumpycoin "getblockhash 0" and it did not give that hash... is there another way to detect is the coin is indeed coingen? i know ,right now, we can go and do a quick search and find the coin names up in the status list, but i am sure coingen stuff will catch up on this and hide the coins.

right now the only ways i can tell is vie a quick search in their status page and the playin ol' coingen wallet status when we open a wallet

[Hazard]

hmm. just checked with grumpycoin "getblockhash 0" and it did not give that hash... is there another way to detect is the coin is indeed coingen? i know ,right now, we can go and do a quick search and find the coin names up in the status list, but i am sure coingen stuff will catch up on this and hide the coins.

right now the only ways i can tell is vie a quick search in their status page and the playin ol' coingen wallet status when we open a wallet

Because it wasn't made with coingen... But still is a crapcoin nonetheless.

[Eex77]

It's a bit bias since Hazard runs his own altcoin creation system, but yeah both services should be put to an end.

[kalus]

check out the coinbuilder thread:  looks like they added customisations (e.g. blockrate, difficulty retarget time) to the coingen engine.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=413019.0 

http://coinbuilder.info/coin/

looks like someone was listening to articles and threads like this.