Hey all. Admin from AllCrypt here. We added BC earlier today due to an outcry of support in the Trollbox.
They also said something interesting.
That for reasons I'm not sure of... people are chomping at the bit to get BC be added as a trading PAIR on exchanges. POT/BC and SLR/BC etc...
Most (all?) coins aren't worth that work. No one asks for trading pairs for these other altcoins.
Why's BC different? Is that something that would be wanted? Is it something that would be supported and used?
AllCrypt was built to be entirely modular. Adding BC as a trading pair would take literally one line of code. (We thought ahead)
But I also don't want to open Pandoras box of all the other coins asking for it, then suddenly there are literally 12,321 markets on AllCrypt as every coin is a possible pair, thus making the site worthless.
But we're also absolutely all about innovation. WE pioneered coin voting. WE are pioneering user configurable cold storage wallets (Hoping to launch that tomorrow or monday).
We'd love to pioneer another amazing change to the crypto Exchange landscape.
But it has to be for the right reason and I have to be convinced it'd work.
Lay it on me.
One reason why people would want it is to get rid of binding it to Bitcoin and all the FUD and attacks from the fiat-world Bitcoin had faced, also the troubles around Mt.Gox and the bearish market. So having BC paired is only one step to have Blackcoin->Fiat possibilities.
Blackcoin has actually a few advantages over Bitcoin. One is the Proof of Stake what makes the coin more secure, than pure Proof of Work. PoW can be attacked for instance by 51% hashpower. Now with Bitcoin's difficulty, that is not an easy thing to do or even close to happen, but on the other hand, Bitcoin is getting more and more centralized by the mining industry and the bigger the ASIC farms grow, the closer each of them comes to get significant influence on the network. To attack PoS with 51%, one had to get hand on 51% of all the coins. That is much less likely to happen because all coins are in circulation and 1% inflation is really low. Therefore, pure PoS is more secure than PoW or PoW/PoS hybrids. Taken the community into account and the support Blackcoin gets, it has the most potential of all PoS coins so far.
And to complete the circle and bring it back to the first point, Blackcoin might be a good base for people to trade their coins from and back into. PoS provides security, that doesn't depend on mining power and the multipool(s) add stability to the price together with the low inflation. And while Bitcoin recently suffered from the attacks, doubt and bears, Blackcoin maintains a rather stable floor.