A warning about Alt-Coins

[George5]

Hi everyone! Can abybody tell me how to see the current difficulty of alt-coin through the client or any other way?

Someone linked this site, it has an overview of all alt coins including difficulty: coinchoose com

I know about this site, but 1. It includes NOT all alt-coins, 2. Sometimes there occure mistakes and the site shows wrong difficulty (as it happened to WDC some hours ago).

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[Portnoy]

Almost all of the alt-coins out there are going to be a waste of time.  They're being created to take advantage of people who get super excited about different things and then get pumped and dumped.

+1

Bitcoin is a protocol, and, like the internet, email, and other dominant protocols, it will be the protocol that wins over its competitors due to, 1) the first-mover advantage, 2) the network effect, and 3) the self-interest of participants to fix any problems and make any worthwhile additions (like how the internet has evolved to include the larger address space of IPv6 or email has evolved to include file attachments)...

[Bitoy]

Almost all of the alt-coins are there are going to be a waste of time.  They're being created to take advantage of people who get super excited about different things and then get pumped and dumped.

Be careful about wasting time with too many alt coins.

Agree, but it is more satisfying to be able to mine whole coins for newcomers, who often don't have much of a setup or GPU. I love the alt coins. They're fun (even if just for now).

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It's the fun factor first and money second 

[Bitoy]

litecoins rock!

That is probably why it is copied by a lot of alt coins.

[FinShaggy]

Devcoin is the best coin.
Especially for noobs

[ahmedbodius]

devcoin is suxx

[FinShaggy]

devcoin is suxx

Only if "Is Suxx" means "Is AWESOME"

Devcoins have been getting a lot of attention over the last month, and this next month is going to be even crazier.
Right now you can get like 20 DVC for .01 USD (1 cent) and they have been worth $10.00 USD EACH before. And with the recent rise in attention, they are definitely going to start rising in value over the next 2-3 months. I think they will probably even get to 1 penny each in that time.

1. There are now Devcoin portals and multiple block explorers

2. There are now Forums with Devcoin sections
http://homegrownsouth.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=20, http://homegrownsouth.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=21, http://homegrownsouth.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=22, http://homegrownsouth.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=222
 
3. There is now a Devcoin video on YouTube and more on the way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6AWKEEEN-Y

4. Devtome.com is getting tons of new writers and writing
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=daily_script_results

5. The Devcoin thread on Bitcointalk.org has just about doubled in a month
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34586

6. An Official Devcoin Logo is being made

7. A Devcoin advertising program is being made, like adsense but devcoins

8. And more that we can talk about as the thread goes on.
https://twitter.com/Devcoins, https://plus.google.com/107638997892350626209/posts, http://bitcoinviews.com/tag/devcoin/,  http://www.thecryptocurrencies.com/2013/04/devcoin.html, http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=470870&f=38

So it's a good time to invest

Also, a second Coin Exchange website has adopted Devcoin, so now there are two:
https://vircurex.com/
https://mcxnow.com/

Plus, Crypto Stocks:
https://cryptostocks.com/securities/14

[pimger]

novacoin cool

[HD7970]

novacoin cool

very cool...i believe this coin....

[FinShaggy]

Also, just a tip. This round shares were smaller than usual.
Usually they are about 1 million DVC per share.
This round was about 350,000 DVC per share.

So people are about to start selling them for more, since less are being distributed. (It's all happening because more writers are coming to Devtome)
So that's another good reason to buy now. Buy while they are cheap, sell when they are a little rarer.

Next round could get as low as 50,000-100,000 per share, since there is a thread for Devtome an stuff now.

If you want to see what is being developed by Devcoin, or if you would like to become involved, check out:

The Devcoin Bounty list:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_bounty

AND
The Currently Available Bounties:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_bounty_now

AND
Devcoin Mining Business:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34586.msg1220943#msg1220943

AND
The Devcoin Charity Board:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=193625.0

[carlznutz]

Thanks for the post. I'm sticking with BTC and LTC. Hopefully I can get my hands on an asic miner, then I'll switch my current setup to LTC.

[FinShaggy]

Thanks for the post. I'm sticking with BTC and LTC. Hopefully I can get my hands on an asic miner, then I'll switch my current setup to LTC.

You can earn Devcoins simply for writing. No mining power required

[ink55]

I anywere think that most of them are going to die during the next months..

[EBM]

"An Official Devcoin Logo is being made"

Or in other words; a $100 logo hasn't even been made yet.

Sign us up.

[FinShaggy]

"An Official Devcoin Logo is being made"

Or in other words; a $100 logo hasn't even been made yet.

Sign us up.

No, there are plenty of logos. They are choosing an official one soon.

[skrill2btc]

+1

[Aryetsok]

Thanks for the tips, very useful indeed

[Pointeh]

Massive WDC dump happening on mcxNOW.

[MeshachBlue]

Thanks for the heads up

[arlington]

Too many alt coins now..