What are the differences between this and HODLcoin? Any specialties or interesting points?
For starters look at the post you did in the HOdl thread and it's gotten no response yet. Now look at your post in here and note that you're quickly getting responses. My point is this our community and attention to members is very good indeed.
Now to your legitimate question I want to say a few things first. Know this, I am a big fan of HOdl coin, I mine it I stake it I term deposit it and I have been in their community for some time now. The fact that I picked HOdl coin to fork and make ROI coin tells a lot because I could have picked any coin known to man. I think HOdl is a great coin so I am not interested in making a tread here about ROI vs HOdl yada yada but I am happy to talk about the differences. As far as which coin is better you should look at the information and make your own decision.
Many coin launches involve copy/paste, change the name, change the logo and presto-bingo a new (not really) coin is born. ROI was no such animal I can assure you.
Let's start with some basic coin specs...ROI is a faster block chain with target spacing at 120 seconds vs Hodl at 154 seconds.
ROI has a much longer window of POW with the code anticipating a POW mining period that spans roughly 30 years.
ROI does not have pre-determined halving like HOdl and remains constant and will be changed if and when needed as the community feedback and data dictates.
ROI has a much higher standard POS of 15% compared to HOdl's 5%.
ROI has a much higher term deposit rate of up to 593%.
Where the HOdl term deposit rate was super high and dropped to almost nothing across a 2 year span the ROI coin term deposit rate is constant.
ROI POW reward is much higher at 120 coins vs Hodl at 50 coins
ROI has a superior difficulty algorithm (MIDAS) as compared to HOdl
ROI coins do not have to be moved and reset every 30 days to keep gaining standard POS whereas HOdl coins do.
In terms of basic coin specs ROI is immensely different. In terms of what is similar both coins use the same 1GB AES algo and both coins are triple-hybrids - IE: POW | POS | Term Deposit
Let's look at the community and the relationship and interaction between the devs and users...I like to think ROI coin is top shelf in how we focus on the needs of the community. We work hard to respond quickly and we don't force any changes but always look for a general community consensus. The community is diverse and thriving and you can see that if you just look around. The people here can verify that the entire dev team has stayed up all night and produced hot fixes almost immediately when they were needed. Others here can testify that we have replaced millions of coins that were lost due to various issues... when is the last time you saw a dev team replace coins that were lost when mined on the wrong chain?
Let's look at the digital footprint...ROI has a far superior digital footprint in terms of professional graphics, videos, social media channels, website and paid marketing. Our white paper is excellent, our road map is very aggressive and we have completed all road map tasks ahead of schedule. This shows clearly with us being a few months old vs a 2 year old coin and we have more than double the network hashrate and a higher trading price.
Now the path forward...ROI is just getting started and look at how many pages already on BitcoinTalk. Just look at over 600 users signed up at the website. ROI has substantial investment capital behind it to sustain infrastructure expenses and marketing expenses. Note our 2 block explorers and 10+ seed nodes... those things aren't free. Moving forward there will be stable infrastructure to support the coin and there will also be plenty of effective paid marketing.
In the end both coins are good coins IMHO but I think ROI has a noticeable edge in a few different areas. Whichever coin you decide to run with or even run with both of them I wish you the best of luck!
