The 3 reasons Heavycoin will never replace Litecoin or Darkcoin, and will even be behind Slothcoin in a month or two:
1) Premine: 1-2% (depending on total supply) for future development, support and maintenance
2) Bounties: 1-2% (depending on total supply) for strategic direction and promoting of heavycoin
3) IPO: 4-8% (depending on total supply) already distributed over 172 stakeholders
This coin is a giant scam coin and it's really pathetic seeing people hype it up like it's going to the moon or something. I'm amazed the price isn't 0 right now.
Stop supporting blatant scam coins and making yourselves look like fools. Get out while you still can.
If you want average risk with good chance of high profit, go Darkcoin.
If you want high risk and possibility of extreme reward, go Slothcoin.
If you want low risk, average reward, go Litecoin.
Ridiculous, this ~2% premine is not big, the IPO gives a vested interest to early backers, instead of just miners at intro, much like venture capitalists and early stage seed investors in traditional investments
For those of you who have been around a while you'll remember tenebrix. One of the early alt-currencies implementing scrypt as a proof-of-work scheme.
Later came Fairbrix, which was a Tenebrix clone with a fair distribution, and then later came litecoin which was essentially a no mc clone of Fairbrix done right, this is ultimately the coin that caught on as one of the first 'viable' alts with lasting power.
The developers of these knew from the very beginning scrypt was not 'GPU-immune' as purpoted, and were secretly mining using GPU (Artforz et al)
while the rest of the general populous was stuck on CPU. Eventually GPU mining became public and Scrypt based coins moved onto claiming 'ASIC-resistance' instead.
In the case of bitcoin, which was becoming increasingly centralised with huge mining farms who had the power
to fund low-cost development of ASIC's, suck up huge profits by private mining, dumping that on market and to darkpools in bulk and selling hardware to suckers once they have outlived their usefullness at huge markups, THEN re-investing profits in a snowball effect to fund next more efficient & powerful ASIC designs many people decided to diversify into a coin where the mining was still decentralized, in the sense you didn't have to buy specialized equipment, more like '1 gpu, 1 vote' as bitcoin was 1 cpu 1 vote in the beginning
Fast forward ~3 years and we start to see emergence of ASIC designs which could compete with GPU. The first manafacturer, Gridseed had tape-out cost of ~0.90$ per chip based on full wafer meaning a 51% attack on LTC was trivial with just a modest financial outlay.(of course it made sense for them to not 51% and instead private mine and sell the hardware to suckers)
now, there are other manafacturers with designs almost ready. Everybody knows about KNC for instance. There is another relatively unknown manafacturer in China who had also raised millions of dollars for r&d and production of scrypt mining and already controls the largest pool, they were running with FPGA for long time. They will soon have majority of LTC hashpower by big margin, all the whinging about CEX.IO in comparison will be small
When these are unleashed it truly is end of days for anybody stuck with GPU. And in fact the outlook is more centralisation than Bitcoin. So what exactly is the benefit of LTC over BTC? totally none, the 'faster confirmations time' is no longer a viable enough reason, it's a dilution, the one selling point of asic resistance is now totally moot.
It's no longer a fair coin. Most big holders and insiders picked up it was languishing and then orchestrated a co-ordinated pump
The only reason I can see it to continue is sunk-cost fallacies, it's already maintained a community of fervent bagholders who beleive it's the silver to btc's gold, also the fact that for some reason, people love to buy the latest and greatest shovels. they will pay 5 gold coins for a machine that may only ever dig back 3 gold coins in it's lifetime, maybe they don't realise, don't care or maybe they know there will be another sucker who'll buy that same shovel for 3 coins. In some cases they do make a profit but it's getting rarer these days
Heavycoin is the coin litecoin should've been in 2014. decentralized mining, decentralized voting, Quick conf times, ASIC and multipool resistance- all topped up with a transparent and fair distribution model.