[2014-01-03] Motherboard: Making Your Own Cryptocurrency Has Never Been Easier

[bryant.coleman]

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/making-your-own-cryptocurrency-has-never-been-easier

This fall, Bitcoin became the toast of the Beltway. Far from its cryptoanarchist origins, US Senators, encouraged by Bitcoin investment and currency speculation, praised the fledgling cryptocurrency as a technological breakthrough.

Everyday 2-3 new altcoins are being created, which is in fact diluting the Bitcoin. Can't we just ban these new copycats?

[LiteCoinGuy]

no we cant. there will always be more then just one cypto but alot of them will die because they offer nothing new and they are not well developt.

[nastybit]

This article is about Mastercoin, not alts.
To add to LiteCoinGuy. no, you can't ban, internet = freedom.
You can ignore or profit from them tho

[odolvlobo]

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/making-your-own-cryptocurrency-has-never-been-easier

This fall, Bitcoin became the toast of the Beltway. Far from its cryptoanarchist origins, US Senators, encouraged by Bitcoin investment and currency speculation, praised the fledgling cryptocurrency as a technological breakthrough.

Everyday 2-3 new altcoins are being created, which is in fact diluting the Bitcoin. Can't we just ban these new copycats?

If we can ban alt coins, then we can ban bitcoin.

Anyway, the title of this article is misleading. The article is about Mastercoin, not about making alt coins.

[TraderTimm]

Disastercoin - perfect.

"Trust us, we're going to take a decentralized system and put a centralized escrow-balanced encoded trainwreck on top of it. Of course it will work, you just have to reverse your stance on trustless sytems and trust every one of the MSC board unconditionally."

Yeah, sure guys. Ripple called, they want their defective premined monopoly back.

[kjlimo]

What is mastercoin?

[W2014]

What is mastercoin?

You can read about it here:

www.mastercoin.org

and here:

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7961/

[kjlimo]

What is mastercoin?

You can read about it here:

www.mastercoin.org

and here:

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7961/

Thanks for the links,

I was more looking for a reason to read those tho...