How does one create an altcoin?

[mav0499]

Any suggestions on what steps are necessary to use existing software to develop your own altcoin client and wallet and mobile app?

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[Einewton]

Getting ready to develop Mav Coin?

If you do not have the knowledge to copy/paste code, you surely should not start your own currency.

[muddafudda]

PM me. We PM each other. A short time later you have your own coin.

[bitcoinreactor]

Any suggestions on what steps are necessary to use existing software to develop your own altcoin client and wallet and mobile app?

search the forum, i recall seeing a detailed howto right here, posted a few weeks ago.

[Damnsammit]

Send a PM to Vlad2Vlad.

He will help you out. 

[muddafudda]

Offer is there. If you get screwed elsewhere, bad luck.

[mav0499]

I will PM shortly. TY.

[barwizi]

for a typical scrypt alt, you can have it done by half the forum members. be careful who you trust though.

[Kruncha]

One does not simply just create an altcoin...

...or was that walk in to Mordor? - can't remember now.

K.

[fluffypony]

Please don't. If you have to ask how you're not technically competent enough to launch another coin into the quagmire of copy-paste, useless derivatives out there.

[markm]

First you spend years developing a coin to which to actually be an alternative.

With those years of hard-earned experience under your belt, some inkling of what it would mean to be an alternative might start to glimmer in some deep dark corner of your mind.

Ruthless criticism of such glimmers follows, killing most. But possibly one might survive the criticisms of its harshest critic (yourself) and seem worth presenting a whitepaper about...

-MarkM-

EDIT: Oh wait, did you maybe mean "clonecoin" actually, not "altcoin" really at all?

A clonecoin is easy, its about the same as how you'd make a dog license with the word dog scratched out and cat written in in crayon and call it a cat license, a la Monty Python...

[mav0499]

To Einewton, Kruncha, fluffypony ... there is a reason why you still live in your parents basement ... rather than explore & question ... you criticise & debase ... very sad. Do not for a second believe that your expertise is not replicable and readily available. That is why business people run companies. Why even waste my time & yours replying.

To MarkM ... yes I am looking at more of a clonecoin than an altcoin, if truth be told. I have my own programmers but wished to find a developer in the bitcoin world who may understand the money and banking implications of bitcoin ... something that I am intimately aware of, having been a global product head of a bank channel.

So lets rechannel our thinking in this forum and provide clever insight not inane criticisms.

[markm]

If you already understand the banking etc and already have programmers to do the coding what is it you need some bitcoin person to do for you, exactly?

Maybe you are looking for an owner of a bitcoin and/or altcoin to / from fiat exchange more than for a cut and paste crapcoin maker such as one finds so many of right here?
 
-MarkM-

[tom1]

It's easy: How To Clone Scrypt Based Altcoins for Fun and Profit

[frobley]

Vlad is that you?

[ilovealtcoins]

Well depends man... If you want a scrypt clone then you can go to pretty much the majority of people in this board. If you want a SHA coin I could make one for you... PM me if you want a SHA coin.

[Kruncha]

To Einewton, Kruncha, fluffypony ... there is a reason why you still live in your parents basement ... rather than explore & question ... you criticise & debase ... very sad. Do not for a second believe that your expertise is not replicable and readily available. That is why business people run companies. Why even waste my time & yours replying.

So lets rechannel our thinking in this forum and provide clever insight not inane criticisms.

Can you read?

Insulting someone for a joke is a little harsh - The above spiel seems to be more suited to you.

K.

[fluffypony]

To Einewton, Kruncha, fluffypony ... there is a reason why you still live in your parents basement ... rather than explore & question ... you criticise & debase ... very sad. Do not for a second believe that your expertise is not replicable and readily available. That is why business people run companies. Why even waste my time & yours replying.

To MarkM ... yes I am looking at more of a clonecoin than an altcoin, if truth be told. I have my own programmers but wished to find a developer in the bitcoin world who may understand the money and banking implications of bitcoin ... something that I am intimately aware of, having been a global product head of a bank channel.

So lets rechannel our thinking in this forum and provide clever insight not inane criticisms.

LOL - resorting to an ad hominem attack just shows how low your self-esteem is, buddy.

Again: asking the question you asked shows either that you are not competent enough to play in this space. There is no need for redundant, copy-paste currencies. If you have an honest-to-goodness original idea, then implement it using Bitcoin or Litecoin or some other existing, established cryptocurrency as a base. If you have an idea for a feature to be added to cryptocurrencies, then pay a developer to add it to an existing tree. There is simply no value in a non-technical person forking any of the existing projects unless they have a technical reason to. Greed and "economic reasons" ala vlad2vlad's failed nuggets idea are not cryptographically or technically substantial reasons to fork.

Also, claiming to have been a "global product head of a bank channel" when you know nothing about any of us and what we do just invalidates your attempt at bragging and makes you look...well...rather pathetic.

[sumantso]

To Einewton, Kruncha, fluffypony ... there is a reason why you still live in your parents basement ... rather than explore & question ... you criticise & debase ... very sad. Do not for a second believe that your expertise is not replicable and readily available. That is why business people run companies. Why even waste my time & yours replying.

And yet you replied.

Looking forward to your clonecoin. Hope you have a few BTCs spare for a pump.

[drawingthesun]

That is why business people run companies.

Statistically, the most popular degree held by CEO's is an engineering or science based one. Also the majority of the most powerful and richest CEO's/Business people in the world are more likely to be from a science/engineering/mathematics background.

Once these engineers become leaders of their respective businesses, they are to be called businessmen. But make no mistake, they are cut from a different cloth to you and are far more engineer than you are business, and yet still do business far beyond your imagination.