The real BitCoin alternative it's only ProtoShares/BitShares, all rest it's BitCoin analogs.
Really? That foundation premined botnet coin? Ofcourse the philoshopy behind the coin is great but the way it was mined the first week.. sure, they did a hardfork to "fix" thing but then they already mined 500.000 coin
No, they didn't.. I did, along with hundreds of others who knew how to point VPS at it. Most of them still are. Why? Because once Bitshares and other DACs are released it will be the #2 coin.
Probably you didn't notice on ypool the users spiderman, batman, robin etc.
ps. i was one of the first that had ec2 instances running for protoshares and still with a few hundred instances it was impossible to get near the hashrate of those botnets. I dont complain because i had a lot of coins myself but a developer that uses a botnet to mine their own coin is a scam in my eyes.