just one developer working on it when they said 50 are working on it , man this sounds like... anyway , you could also say that this is natural selection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_NakamotoWas 1 and changed the world... Not 50.
But true, all Coins follow evolution similar to Darwinism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Darwinismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selectionDarwinism evolution is a mix between mutations of the Code, + environment adaptation.
Bitcoin was the first, born in 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitcoinCredits CRDS is a Mutation / Evolution of the Bitcoin.
https://mobile.twitter.com/credits_crds/https://crds.cohttps://coinlib.io/coin/CRDS/CreditsLitecoin born October-2011 was the 1st mutation,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrenciesmutations were: to replace the sha256 algorythm to a new Scrypt algorithm, harder to implement on
FPGA & ASIC without memory.
And the logo changed Orange B to Silver L, was called the Silver of Bitcoin, when there was No other coin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LitecoinOthers Followed, like Dogecoin December-2013, that merged with Litecoin Miners, and bridged to Ethereum in 2017-2018,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoinhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/41ohhr/the_doge_connection_bounty_dao_is_live_and_working/https://mobile.twitter.com/avsa/status/951890472150208513?lang=eshttps://etherscan.io/address/0xdbf03b407c01e7cd3cbea99509d93f8dddc8c6fb#tokentxnsSooner or later Scrypt ASIC miners were born,
An New algorithms in response, to avoid Scrypt ASIC Miners,
Some even more radical designed to avoid GPU,
But sooner or later most CPU algorithms were ported to GPU, with increased speed,
New species were born, Like Ethereum, probably the 1st coin to do an ICO "crowdsale", 2000 ETH : 1 BTC July-August 2014, but officially went live in July 2015, and split in 2016. The First Coin
Fork.
Mutations: blocks every 15 seconds, Ethash algorithm (a modified version of Dagger-Hashimoto),
the ability to run code, like Universal Alan Turing Machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Turing_machinehttps://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/22/launching-the-ether-sale/Monero was born April 2014
Mutations: New CryptoNight Algorythm,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero_(cryptocurrency)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoNote#Egalitarian_proof_of_workArgon2 was born in July 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_Hashing_CompetitionMore mutations were born, pre-mined, Non-mineable, coins that wallet requires a minimum fee to create a valid address, coins backed by real goods, Gold, Dollars & OIL, some more anonymous, some more traceable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptocurrencyActual / Modern Human society follows popularity as a Natural Selection, but Nature / Genetics also require Reproduction to be a complete Natural Selection, "Monogamy is against Complete Natural Selection."
Coins behave similar, popularity dictates Natural Selection,
Hackers trying to steal money, create a New Natural Selection,
Goverments trying to track ilegal money, create a New Natural Selection, coins based on NEM, for example Venezuela PTR or similar like Ripple.
Popularity is a big deal in our society but is not all.
Popularity can be used for scams.coins.
Popularity can be a double side weapon/blade, that cuts both ways.
Popularity is not always good.
Popularity & Natural Selection are similar, but Not the same.
Sha256 coins, like Bitcoin, will be killed, by ASIC Miner war...
China is not selling faster ASIC Miners,
Russia & others are developing Faster Private ASIC Miners,
Sooner or later, if Bitcoin becomes too popular or price becomes too high, ASIC hardware manufacturers will stop selling Miners.
Making Bitcoin centralized, the opposite of the original idea.
Bitcoin continued to evolve and split into Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold,
The reasons for the splits, were that some evolutions of the Bitcoin code were not desired,
For example:
If you have a Node Wallet, and you click [X]Send with 0-Fee if possible,.
That option ONLY works IF 2 conditions are meet:
-server -gen=1
Wallet mining was
removed from Bitcoin in 0.10, and all other coins that followed the update like Dogecoin.
Sending with 0-Fee is Not possible today for Node Wallets, like it was designed from the beginning in the original code.
Does Not matter Wallet CPU mining was obsolete, it was used also to send with 0-Fee.
Like a Reward for Node Wallet mining.
To motivate Node Wallet use and avoid a 51% attack.
That option was removed.!
Some "evolutions" of the Bitcoin Code are against evolution, but still very popular. Fair?
GPU price increased a lot in the last months, used price today was New price yesterday, some say is because there is too much demand for memory, and memory prices are increasing, because the demand is too high, probably caused by GPU Miners, cellphones, RAM modules, SSD drives, etc...
That's why is so important a CPU-Only coin.
Evolution will choose CPU, or hybrid coins, that CPU is so fast & GPU so slow, that makes sense to use the CPU.
MoneroXMR is the only hybrid coin today I know, but is a bit GPU biased,
For example a 7700K makes 300H/s, stock,
The fastest ARM Cellphone makes 30H/s,
And a Gtx 1060 6GB overcloked +200 +500, makes 500H/s., 450H/s stock.
Still makes sense to use CPU.
Web site Web Add banners / Miners choose Monero, for the same reason. "environment adaptation."
