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Hi Everyone, I have been thinking of writing 2014 Altcoin Summary in Chinese. What aspects should be covered, feel free to share your views. Your opinion (plus link) will be much appreciated. Besides I need some data as crucial support for the article.
Several chapters could be included:
1. General Review. Total number of Altcoin ANN in 2014? (600+?) Total market value? 2. Key Innovations/Features Annynymous/darksend? (darkcoin/blackcoin? or more) Asic-proof () PoW/PoS (any other Proof of ?) 3. Altcoin Exchanges Theft? Downfall? 4. Altcoin Scams Maybe top 10?
5. Pros and Cons of Altcoin? (not sure about the title)
6. 2015 Outlook Appendix: Top 10 Altcoins (market value/intro)
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November 20, 2014, 10:55:23 AM |
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Blackcoin isn't (or was?) anonymous. It gained popularity by putting everything on PoS and no more PoW, and the hype surrounding the multipool, which was the first PoW-2-PoS pool ^^"
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November 20, 2014, 11:58:46 AM |
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Total number of Altcoin ANN in 2014? (600+?)
The total thus far for 2014 is 1572 (including parodies, failed launches etc. and not limited merely to btctalk ANNs) according to a count of the coins listed in the DOACC metadata collection and obtained via a SPARQL query posed of Minkiz' SPARQL endpoint, accessible on: https://minkiz.co/sparqlPREFIX doacc: <http://purl.org/net/bel-epa/doacc#> SELECT (COUNT(?node) AS ?coins) { ?node doacc:incept ?yearmo FILTER(?yearmo > '2013-12') }
You'll probably want to update to the latest count prior to publishing your summary. For convenience, here's the query as a clickable URLCheers Graham
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November 20, 2014, 04:39:28 PM |
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2. Key Innovations/Features Annynymous/darksend? (darkcoin/blackcoin? or more) Asic-proof () PoW/PoS (any other Proof of ?) -------------- A. What defines a good way to value Crypto in the future , which will also help future exchanges list quality crypto, also will benefit the many and help adoption: http://www.coinspeaker.com/2014/11/06/cryptocurrency-fraud-part-1-identifying-ways-in-which-fraudsters-operate/ it is a 2 part about an index called PoW+ basically just states that in the long term the only real crypto that will be looked at are PoW + an continuation of issuance and advocates an index for this. Why this will be successful is because it will provide more predictable returns for the many . -------------- B. Multi PoW - such as Myriad was a significant evolution - although so far a flawed economic implementation. --------------- C. Cryptonite - introduced the mini Blockchain a blockchain that is about 20b in size total. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=713538.0--------------------- D. Quark should have a BTC cross on BTC38 so that CNY traders can take advantage of any potential drop in BTC. also would be interested in any other large Chinese alt exchanges that are about?
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November 23, 2014, 03:45:23 AM |
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Total number of Altcoin ANN in 2014? (600+?)
The total thus far for 2014 is 1572 (including parodies, failed launches etc. and not limited merely to btctalk ANNs) according to a count of the coins listed in the DOACC metadata collection and obtained via a SPARQL query posed of Minkiz' SPARQL endpoint, accessible on: https://minkiz.co/sparqlPREFIX doacc: <http://purl.org/net/bel-epa/doacc#> SELECT (COUNT(?node) AS ?coins) { ?node doacc:incept ?yearmo FILTER(?yearmo > '2013-12') }
You'll probably want to update to the latest count prior to publishing your summary. For convenience, here's the query as a clickable URLCheers Graham Thanks for the info, which is very helpful. I am the forum mod of 8btc.com and I write some articles from time to time. Credits will be duely noted in the article.
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November 23, 2014, 03:50:05 AM |
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Blackcoin isn't (or was?) anonymous. It gained popularity by putting everything on PoS and no more PoW, and the hype surrounding the multipool, which was the first PoW-2-PoS pool ^^"
Are you saying that multipool is a Key innovation that should go into the record. I know nothing of it and did some search on google. https://www.multipool.us/Why is it so special and could someone provide me with a general review of brief intro of multipool. That would be very helpful.
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December 21, 2014, 05:45:53 AM |
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December 21, 2014, 02:37:38 PM |
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Since cryptocurrency is an investment for a lot of people, there should be rate of return for the various currencies. I would include both a 1 year rate and a 6 month rate (to see how the newer coins are faring).
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December 21, 2014, 03:32:44 PM |
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Maybe include the trendshifts in crypto in 2014. I think we started out with ASIC "Proof", followed by Proof of Stake, then Burning Addresses, moved to ICOs and are now back to good old premined coins now. So much for exchanging the carrot in front of the mule. I agree though, that an effort should also be made to highlight the innovations and features some Altcoins have brought is in 2014, next to the general FUD and doubt about the future of the Altcoin scene that is currently prevailing in this forum. Not everything was that bad after all.
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December 21, 2014, 05:24:52 PM |
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You should probably cover that 95% of all altcoins are absolute dog shit.
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December 21, 2014, 06:09:45 PM |
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You should probably cover that 95% of all altcoins are absolute dog shit.
1 out of 20 are solid? That's far too optimistic. I'd highlight the top 15 - 20 and summarize their movement over the last year.
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December 22, 2014, 11:24:24 AM |
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For top 10 scams you should list the Scam by severity with references. StackCoin, AuroraCoin and BitSwift are a few that immediately come to mind.
CryptoRush got hacked and lost everything
Bter was hacked for 50 million NXT
MintPal was hacked for 30% of Vericoin and they rolled back the Blockchain
MaintPal was acquired by Moolah and Ryan Gentle ran off with everyones funds
X11 was introduced BlackCoin helped standardize POS only Anonyminity was introduced
The most protocol advancements were through Proof of Stake Coins which also introduced POS 2.0, sending using minimal CoinAge, Stake for Charity, use of int64_t and levelDB for efficiency improvements, Quick-sync among many other smaller changes.
Nubits, the first USD peg was also introduced
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December 22, 2014, 11:43:50 AM |
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The most protocol advancements were through Proof of Stake Coins which also introduced POS 2.0, sending using minimal CoinAge, Stake for Charity, use of int64_t and levelDB for efficiency improvements, Quick-sync among many other smaller changes.
Is the bolditalicised part ^^^^ a description of the components that differentiate "POS 2.0" from "POS 1.0" or an unrelated list of added features/changes? I've seen the term "POS 2.0" used but I've yet to encounter a definition. Cheers Graham
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The most protocol advancements were through Proof of Stake Coins which also introduced POS 2.0, sending using minimal CoinAge, Stake for Charity, use of int64_t and levelDB for efficiency improvements, Quick-sync among many other smaller changes.
Is the bolditalicised part ^^^^ a description of the components that differentiate "POS 2.0" from "POS 1.0" or an unrelated list of added features/changes? I've seen the term "POS 2.0" used but I've yet to encounter a definition. Cheers Graham The definition mainly refers to BlackCoin in that the Proof of Stake has advanced enough that it is a far cry from Proof of Stake a year ago. There is no real definition as there are varying layers that could fit in so it is a general term.
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December 22, 2014, 02:21:32 PM |
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Updated at 21st December 2014 (happy solstice!), the new total is shown in red below ... The total thus far for 2014 is 1572 1648 (including parodies, failed launches etc. and not limited merely to btctalk ANNs) according to a count of the coins listed in the DOACC metadata collection and obtained via a SPARQL query posed of Minkiz' SPARQL endpoint, accessible on: https://minkiz.co/sparqlPREFIX doacc: <http://purl.org/net/bel-epa/doacc#> SELECT (COUNT(?node) AS ?coins) { ?node doacc:incept ?yearmo FILTER(?yearmo > '2013-12') }
You'll probably want to update to the latest count prior to publishing your summary. For convenience, here's the query as a clickable URLCheers Graham
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December 30, 2014, 07:05:38 AM |
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Since cryptocurrency is an investment for a lot of people, there should be rate of return for the various currencies. I would include both a 1 year rate and a 6 month rate (to see how the newer coins are faring).
Thanks for the pointer. I will give serious thought on this.
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December 30, 2014, 07:46:39 AM |
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- Handful of people are using crypto/bitcoin to make purchases. Majority just convert it to fiat. ![Cry](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cry.gif) . We're still stuck at where we were in the begining of year when it comes to adoption. ATM, shops accepting ..that's all great but we need buyers not investors.
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January 02, 2015, 06:38:08 PM Last edit: January 02, 2015, 08:37:19 PM by Chase |
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- Handful of people are using crypto/bitcoin to make purchases. Majority just convert it to fiat. ![Cry](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cry.gif) . We're still stuck at where we were in the begining of year when it comes to adoption. ATM, shops accepting ..that's all great but we need buyers not investors. We will likely see the majority of people / businesses convert to fiat until a currency can prove itself stable. Long term investing can help with the stability because you won't see as many massive price swings as when someone (especially a business) randomly dumps large amounts on the market. That being said, you have to select your long term holdings very carefully, keeping in mind that only a handful of these coins will be here in 5 or 10 years. Watch for stability, it will be a key feature in which one succeeds. When the prices stabilize, the investors will start spending their crypto, the businesses may start holding or paying their employees in crypto, etc.
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